NOV 16 1897 



HISTORICAL 
HAND BOOK 



NEW JERSEY 



CONTAINING 



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in its History — from 1606 
to 1898— 292 Years; besides 
Thousands of Curious^ ^-^ 
Quaint and Useful Items, 
Relating to Persons, Places 
and Things, in the History, 
Progress and Development 
of the Province and State ^ 



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PREFACE 

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ment is conceded in advance ; but no one, not even an 
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merely to find out and report its mistakes instead of 
the good it contains. The compiler hereof does not 
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all the information herein, but simply records his glean-, 
ings from other books where authors seemed to be 
honest and painstaking in their statements. Plainly 
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wliich many reatlers already know, many things which 
many readers dont know, some things which some 
readers needn't know, and very many things, useful and 
important, which all readers might, could, would and 
should know about , New Jersey history — Past and 
Present. 



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CONDENSED STATISTICS OF NEW JERSEY 



Settled when In 1614-20 

Settled where At Bergen 

By whom settled The Dutch 

The third state when Dec. 18, 1787 

Latitude Between 38 56' and 41" 21' N. = 2% degrees 

Longitude 73 54' to 75" 31' W. = l^ degrees 

Temperature, average 53 

Population in 1880 1,131,116 

Population in 1890 1,444,933 

Classz'/ied — Males, 720,819; females, 724,114; white, 1,396,581; 
colored, 48,352; Am. born, 1,115,958; foreign born, 328,975 

State area in square miles 8,320 

State area in acres 5,324,800 

Population to each square mile, 1890 193.82 

Acres to each person in 1890 3.07 

Voting population in 1890 413,530 

Number of Representatives 8 

Vote for Cleveland, 1888 151,403 

Vote for Cleveland, 1892 171,042 

Vote for McKinley, 1896 221,367 

Number of counties 21 

Largest county, Burlington, area 860 sq. miles 

Smallest county, Hudson, area 43 sq. miles 

Number of postofifices 914 

Number of cities 25 

Number of newspapers 396 

Number of public school buildings, 1896 1.763 

Number of teachers, 1896 5,630 

Number of pupils, 1896 438,968 

Number of railroads .t. ... ..2,117 miles 

Number of farms in 1890 30,828 

Value of farms in 1890 $ 159,262,840 

Value of farm products in 1890 $28,993,349 

Number of manufacturing establishments, 1890 9,225 

Product of same, 1890 1 354,573,571 

LEADING CITIES AND POPULATION IN 1890. 

Newark (17)- 181,513 

Jersev City (19) 163,987 

Paterson ( 36 ) 78,358 

Camden (49) 58,274 

Trenton (50) 57,458 

Hoboken (68) 43,648 

Elizabeth (79) 37,764 

Bavonne 19,033 

Orange 18,844 

New Brunswick 18,603 

=•' Rank among 124 American cities. 



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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE TWENTY- NINE 
GOVERNORS OF NEW JERSEY 



Administka 


Xame. 


TIOX. 




XXIX ic XXXI 


Abbett, Leon 


XXVI 


Bedle, Joseph, D 


IV 


Bloomfield, Joseph . . . 


VII 


Dickerson, Mahlon 


XIII 


Dickerson, Philemon.. 


XVIII 


Kort, George, F 


XXX 


Green, Robert, S 


XXXIII 


(iriggs, John, William. 


XV \ XVII 


Haines, Daniel 


III 


Howell, Richard 


I 


Livingston, Wm 


XXVIII 


Lndlow, George, C 


XXVI 1 


McClellan,Geo. B 


XX 


Newell, Wm. A 


V 


Ogden Aaron 


XXI 


Olden, Chas. vS 


XXII *c XXV 


Parker, Joel 


11 


Paterson, Wm 


VI 


l^ninington, W. S 


XIV 


Pennington, Wm ... . 


XIX 


Price, R. M 


XXIV 


Randolph, T. F 


XI 


Seeley, Elias, P 


X 


Sonthard.S. L 


XV] 


Stratton, Chas. C 


IX ^c XII 


Vrooni, Peter, D 


XXIll 


Ward, Marcas, J, 


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VI J I 


Williamson, Isaac H. . . 



1836-1894 
1831-1894 
1755-1823 
1770-1853 
1788-1862 
1809-1872 
1331-1895 

1801-1877 

1754-1803 

1723-1790 

1830- 

1826-1885 

1819- 

1756-1839 

1799-1876 

1816-1888 

1745-1806 

1757-1826 

1796-1862 

181(;-1894 

1816-1883 

1846- 

1787-1842 

1796-1859 

1791-1873 

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1846- 

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1815- 


17 


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4 


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1866- 


69 


1893-1896 


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29 



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BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES 

OF THE 

GOVERNORS OF NEW JERSEY IN THE ORDER OF 
THEIR ADMINISTRATIONS, I TO XXXIII 



I WILLIAM LIVINGSTON Age 67 
(federalist) 

vServed 1789-1790 — 11 years 

Born in Albany, N .Y., Nov. 30, 1723. 

Died in Elizabethtown, N. J., July 25, 1790. 

When but 14 years of age he spent a year, with a 
missionary, among the Mohawk Indians, and in 1741 
graduated at Yale, at the head of his class. He en- 
tered the legal profession in 1748 and was known as 
the "Presbyterian" lawyer. He served three years in 
the N. Y. Legislature, but in 1760 he settled on his 
Country Seat "Liberty Hall", near Elizabethtown, N. 
J., where he entertained John Jay, Mr. and Mrs. George 
Washington, and others. In 1774 he represented New 
Jersey in the Continental Congress and in 1776 became 
Brigadier General of the New Jersey militia, succeed- 
ing to the governorship when William Franklin was 
deposed. In 1787 he was delegate to the convention 
which framed the federal constitution. Besides pub- 
lishing the "Independent Reflector" for one year — 
1752-3 — he was a contributor to the papers of the day. 
Because of his tallness and thinness, he was called the 
^'Don Quixote of the Jerseys". He was a brother of 
Philip Livingston, signer of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. 

II WILLIAM PATERSON Age 61 

[ federalist) 

Served 1790-1792 — 2 years 

Born at sea in 1745. 
Died in Albany. N. Y., Sept. 9, 1806. 
His parents brought him from Ireland when two 
years old, and in 1763 he graduated at Princeton, N . J., 

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10 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY 

and became a lawyer in 17G9. In 177(i he was a mem- 
ber of the State Constitutional Convention — then 
Attorney General — then member of the Legislative 
Council. In 1780-1 he was member of the Continental 
Congress, and in 1787 of the Constitutional Convention, 
where he favored State rights which Edward Randolph 
opposed. He resigned his Senatorship in 17}>1 to be- 
come Governor, and in 1793 Washington appointed him 
to be Justice of U. S. Supreme Court, which place he 
held till his death. 

Ill RICH.\RI) HOWKLL Age 49 

FKDKRALIST 

St-rved 17!»2-1S01 — 9 years 

Born in Newark. Delaware, on Oct. 25. 1754. 

Died in Trenton. N . J.. May 5. 18(i8. 

He was a statesman as well as lawyer. Before the 
war he was prosecuted for helping to burn a cargo 
of tea at Greenwich. N. J., in November 1774, As 
Captain in the Second New Jersey Regiment he was 
at Quebec in 1775. The next year he became Major 
and in 1779 Colonel of the Regiment — also Clerk of 
State Supreme Court 1778-179:1 He welcomed Wash- 
ington (at Trenton) enroute for New York, with an 
ode of his own composition. During the Whiskey 
Insurrection of 1794 Gov. Howell commanded the New 
Jersey troops and the right wing of the Army under 
Gen. Washington. Mrs. JefT. Davis was his grand- 
daughter. 

IV JOSHPH BLOOM FIP:LD Age 68 

I )i:. MOCK AT 
Served 18(11 -ISTJ— 11 year.s 

Born in Woodbridge. Middlesex Co.. N. J., in 1755. 

Died in Burlington. N. J.. Oct.. 3. 1823. 

First a lawyer, then a soldier, he became in 1776 
a captain in the 3rd N. J. Reg't. serving through the 
war. Leaving the army, as Major, he resumed his 
legal i)ractice and became .Attorney General of the State. 
After he left the Governorship in 1812. he served as 
Brigadier General in the war of 1812-15. and then in 
Congress in 1H17-21. on important Committees. 



GOVERNORS OF NEW JERSEY. 11 

V AARON OGDEX Age 83 

FEDERALIST 

Served Oct. 29, 1812-1813 

Born in Elizabethtown. X. J.. Dec. 3. 1750. 
Died in Jersey City, X. J.. April 19. 1839. 

After graduating at Princeton, X .J., in 1773, he 
taught school — until the war told him to become a 
soldier. In 1775-6 he and others boarded a British 
vessel off Sandy Hook and took her a prize to Eliza- 
bethtown. "^^s'TJa'ptam he was at the battle of Brandy- 
wine, and was with Lafayette in his Virginia campaign 
in 1781. He studied law when the war closed — then 
became deputy U. S. Quartermaster — and for two 
years was U S. Senator. In 1806 he was appointed 
Boundary Commissioner, and in 1812 became Com- 
mander-in-Chief of the X". J. militia. For lU years, 
1829-39, he was President of the Society of Cincinnati. 
Princeton made him LL. D. 

VI WILLIAM SAX FORD PEXXIXGTOX Age 69 

; DEMOCRAT 

Served 1813-181.1 — 2 years 

Born in Xewark, X. J., in 1757. 
Died in Xewark. X. J.. Sept. 18. 1826. 

His great-gandfather was one of the original sett- 
lers, in 1667. of Xewark. and he was apprenticed till 
the Revolution, to his mother's farmer-brother — a 
Tory — who disinherited him when the boy joined 
the rebel army. Gen. Knox admired the bravery of 
young Pennington and in 1780 he was made Lieutenant. 
In Pennington's diary mention is made of his driving 
with Washington — witnessing the execution of Maj. 
Andre — and seeing, in Jan. 1781, the mutiny of Pa. 
troops at Morristown. Leaving the army a ]Vlajor, 
he became a X'^ewark hatter — in 1802 a lawyer, then 
a member of the Legislature, and Feb. 28. 1804. asso- 
ciate Justice of the State Supreme Court, and from 
1815 to 1826 a judge of the U. S. Dist. Court, as suc- 
cessor to Robert Morris. ^Madison appointed him. He 
published the "Xew Jersey Supreme Court Reports.'' 



12 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

VII MAHLON DICKERSON Age 83 

I FEDERALIST 

Served ISI-VISIT — 2 years 

Born in Hanover, N. J., Apr. 17, 1770. 
Died in Suckasunny, N. J., Oct. 5, 1853. 

His ancestor, Philemon Dickerson, came from 
England to Salem, Mass., and thence in 1672 to South- 
hold, L. I., and in 1745 to New Jersey. Graduating at 
Princeton in 178lj he became a lawyer in 1793 and prac- 
ticed successfully in Phila. The Whiskey insurrection 
took him as a volunteer to Pa. He was Quartermas- 
ter Gen. of Pa., 1805-8, and City Court Recorder of 
Phila in 1808-10. Returning to N. J. he became Su- 
preme Court Judge and Chancellor, and in 1814 a mem- 
ber of the Legislature and next year Governor. When 
his term expired he was chosen U. S. Senator, serving 
in this capacity from Dec. 1, 1817 to March 2, 1833, 16 
years. Pres. Jackson appointed him, June 30, 1834, 
Sec'y of the Navy and he served as such under Van 
Buren till June 30, 1838. He was next on the bench 
as U. S. Dist. Judge for N. J., and in 1844 a member 
of the State Constitutional Convention. He was largely 
interested in mining and manufacturing industries in 
Morris Co., New Jersey. 

VIII ISAAC IIALSTEI) WILLIAMvSON AGE 77 

^ FEDERALIST 

Served 1S17-1S«I — IJ years 

Born in Elizabethtown, N. J., in 1767. 
Died in Elizabethtown. N. J., July 10, 1844. 

After obtaining a grammar school education he 
studied law with his brother and in 1791 was admitted 
and then became Pros. Att'y for Morris County. In 
1817 he was elected to the State Assembly and soon 
affer became Governor as well as Chancellor, holding 
the two positions about 12 years. \ member of the 
State Constitutional Convention of 1844 — he died 
soon after its adjournment sine die. 



GOVERNORS OF NEW JERSEY. 13 

IX PETER DUMONT VROOM Age 82 

( DEMOCRAT ) 

Served 1829-18o2 — 3 years 

Born in Hillsborough Tp. in N. J., Dec. 12, 1791. 
Died in Trenton, N. J., Nov. 18, 1873. 

His father was a Revolutionary officer. A gradu- 
ate of Columbia College in 1808, he became a lawyer 
in 1813, a member of the Legislature in 1826-9, and 
then Gov. by choice of the Legislature and served again 
in 1830-1 and 1833-6. In 1837 Pres. Van Buren ap- 
pointed him Indian Claim Adjuster. A member of 
Congress 1839-41. and of the Constitutional Convention 
of 1844. In 1853-7 he was Minister to Prussia. He 
published N. J. Supreme Court Reports. He supported 
McClellan for Pres. in 1864. 



X SAMUEL LEWIS SOUTHARD Age 55 

(WHIG) 

Served 1832-1833 — 1 year 

Born in Baskinridge, N. J., June 9, 1787. 
Died in Fredericksburg, Va., June 26, 1842. 

He graduated at Princeton in 1804, taught school 
in N. J., then went as a family tutor to Va., where he 
studied law and was admitted, but returned to Hunting- 
ton, N. J., to practice. In 1814 the Legislature made 
him law reporter, and in 1815 he became associate jus- 
tice of the Supreme Court. A presidential elector in 
1820 he was next chosen U. S. Senator by the Whigs, 
serving till March 1823, vice J. J. Wilson. Sept. 182::? 
he became Sec'y of the Navy, serving till 1829. From 
March 7 to July 1, 1825. he was Sec'y of Treasury, and 
part of the time in charge of the War Portfolio. In 
1829 he was Att y Gen. of N. J., and in 1832 Governor. 
He served as U. S. Senator from 1832 till May 3, 1842, 
when he resigned — having once been Pres. of the 
Senate. He published the Reports of the N. J. Su- 
preme Court. The University of Pa. made him LL. D., 
and he was one of Princeton's Trustees. 



14 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

XI ELI AS P. SEELEY Age 55 

WHIG 

Served 1833-1833 

Born in 1791. Died in 1846. ^ 

A descendant of the New England Puritans who 
settled in New Jersey about 1698 — he received a com- 
mon school education — after which he studied law 
with Daniel Elmer, of Bridgeton. N. J., and became 
a bar member in 1815. His father's experience for 
years in the Assembly and Council of the State pre- 
pared the way for the son, who in 1829 and for years 
after, served in the Legislative Council. When Gov. 
Southard became U. S. Senator in March 1833. Seeley 
stepped into the Governorship — which he held for a 
few months — or till the accession of Gov. Vroom. 
Subsequently. Seeley served for years in the Legislature. 

XII PETER DUMONT VROOM Age 82 

DEMOCRAT 

Served 1833-1836 — 3 years 
See No. IX) 

XIII PHILEMON DICKERSON Age 74 

DEMOCRAT 

Served is:i()-l.s37 — 1 year 

Born in ]\Iorris Co.. N. J., in 1788. 
Died in Paterson, N. J.. Dec. lt>. 1862. 

A brother of Gov. Mahlon Dickerson, he received 
a good education and after studying law, practiced in 
Paterson for 20 years after his return from Phila. in 
1812. After serving in Congress from 1833 to 1835, he 
resigned, after a re-election, to become Governor. Re- 
elected to Congress in 1838 a general election contest 
orevented him and others from taking their seats till 
March 1(». 1840. He afterward became one of the U. 
S. Dist. Judges of New Jersey. 



GOVERNORS OF NEW JERSEY. 15 

XIV WILLIAM PENNINGTON Age 6t) 

( WHIG j 

Served 1837-1843 — 6 years 

Born in Newark, N. J., May 4. 1796. 

Died in Newark, N. J.. Feb. 16, 1862. 

A son of Wm. S. Pennington (Gov. of N. J. in 
1813-15 — See VI), he graduated at Princeton in 1813 
and began the practice of law at Newark. While serv- 
ing as Governor the "Broad Seal War," growing out 
of the Congressional Contest of 1838, was waging. As 
the choice of a Speaker (J. Q. Adams or R. M. T. Hun- 
ter) hinged on the five contested votes of N. J., it was 
an exciting event. He refused the appointment of Gov. 
of Minnesota, but served as Clerk of U. S. Dist. Court 
from 1815-1826. He served in Congress in 1859-61, 
and after a contest of eight weeks became Speaker in 
Feb. 1860. 

XV DANIEL HAINES Age 76 

( democrat) 
Served 1843-1844 — 1 year 

Born in N. Y. City. Jan. 6. 1801. 

Died in Hamburg, N. J., Jan. 26, 1877. 

Schooled in N. Y. and at Elizabethtown he gradu 
ated at Princeton in 1820, was admitted to the bar in 
1823, and in 1827 became a member of the Council. 
The new Constitution took eiTect while he was Gover- 
nor. A-gain elected Governor in 1847, he served three 
years and then was chosen judge of the Supreme Court. 
From 1870 to 1876 he served on State Boundary Com- 
missions and helped locate several State Charitable In- 
stitutions. He helped unite the two bran^rhes of the 
Presbyterian Church and was delegate in 1870 to Prison 
Reform Conventions at home and abroad. At the time 
of his death he was the oldest living Trustee of Prince- 
ton College. He and Daniel Webster were once as- 
sociated in trying the Goodyear Rubber Patent Cases. 

XVI CHARLES C. STRATTON Age 63 

WHIG 

Served l,S44-184.s — 4 years 

Born at Swedesboro, N. J., in 1796. 



16 HISTORICAI. HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

Died at Swedesboro, N. J., March 13, 1859. 

After serving four years in the State Legislatu»-e, 
he served in the 25th Congress (1837-9) as a Whig, and 
though elected under the "Broad Seal" to the 26th 
Congress, he was not admitted. When his term in 
the 27th Congress expired he became a member of the 
State Constitutional Convention and next the first Gov- 
ernor chosen by the people. After his Governorship 
ended he retired to his Swedesboro farm. 

XVII DANIEL HAINES 

DEMOCRAT ) 

Served 1848-1851—3 years 
(See No. XV) 

XVIII GEORGE FRANKLIN FORT Age 63 

DEMOCRAT, 

Served 1851-1854 — 3 years 

Born in Pemberton, N. J., in May 1809. 

Died in New Egypt, Ocean Co., N. J., Apr. 22, 1872. 

Educated at home — he received a medical diploma 
from the University of Pennsylvania in 1830 and prac- 
ticed successfully. Elected to the Legislature he be- 
came in 1844 a member of the State Constitutional Con- 
vention, and next State Senator. He served two terms 
as Governor and then became judge of the Court of 
Appeals. He was actively interested in prison reforms 
and his work (1875) on Freemasonry shows how deeply 
that subject enchained him. 

XLX RODMAN McCAULEY PRICE Age 78 

democrat; 

Served 1854-1S.")7 — 3 years 

Born in Sussex Co.. N. J., May 5, 1816. 

Died in Oakland, Bergen Co., N. J., June 7, 1894. 

After the study of law he became, in 1840, purser 
in U. S. Navy, serving thus till 1848. when he became 
Pacific Coast Naval Agent and served as Alcalde in 
California when the U. S. flag was raised there. On 
his return East, in 1850, he was elected to Congress and 
served from 1851-3. when the Governorship awaited 



GOVERNORS OF NEW JERSEY. 17 

hini. During his three years service as Governor the 
Normal School and miUtia systems of the State re- 
ceived his active support. He was delegate, in 18(31, 
to the "Peace" Congress. Pages would be needed to 
detail the many measures advocated by Price as Gov. 
and Ex. Gov. to develop the resources, the ir.dustries, 
and the commerce of N. J. His zeal amounted to 
patriotism. 

XX WM. AUGUSTUS NEWELL Age — 

; republican; 

Served 1857-1860 — 3 years 

Born in Franklin, Ohio, Sept. 5, 1819. 

His ancestors came to N. J. in 1632, and his parents 
left Monmouth Co. for a three years' sojourn in Ohio. 
After graduating at Rutgers College, in 1836, he studied 
medicine. He was elected as a Whig to Congress, 
Dec. 3, '47, and served till March 3, 1851. In 18()-1: he 
was delegate to the Republican Convention at Balti- 
more. He served in Congress 1865-7 on importani 
■committees, and w^as delegate to the Phila. "Loyalists" 
Convention" of 1866. He originated and was Supt. 
of the Life Savings Stations of N. J. from 18G1-3, and 
procured the appropriation of $10,000 for them. He 
ran for governor in 1877, but was defeated by McClellan. 
From 1880-4 lie was Governor of Washington Territory 
and in 1884-6 Indian Commissioner there. When his 
term expired lie resumed the practice of law at Olympia, 
his present residence. Dr. Newell and Abraham Lin- 
coln were in Congress at the same time. 

XXI CHARLES SMITH OLDEN Age 77 

REPUBLICAN 

Served 1860-1 SCjo — 3 years 

Born in Princton. N. J., Nov. 19, 1799. 

Died in Princeton, N. J., April 7, 1876. 

He left school at Lawrenceville. N. J., for a store- 
life, which he pursued at Phila. and New Orleans till 
1834. when he returned to Princeton, where he became 
treasurer of the College and freed it from embarrass- 
ment. He was in the State Senate from 1844-1850. As 



18 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

Gov. of the State, 1860-63, he saw that the state did its 
duty to the General Government as aforetime during 
the Revolution. He became judge of the Court of 
Appeals and held other responsible ofhces. 

XXII JOEL PARKER Age 72 

I DEMOCRAT; 

Served 1863-1866 — 3 years 

Born near Freehold, N. J., Nov. 24, 1816. 

Died in Phila., Pa., Jan. 2, 1888. 

Removed to Trenton in 1821, graduated at Prince- 
ton 1839, then settled at Freehold. In the Assembly, 
1847-50, Pros. Att'y 1852-7. When Pres. Elector in 
1860, he voted for Douglas, though opposed to him at 
first. He became a Brig. Gen. in 1857, and in 1861 
Maj. Gen., and ardently supported the war when fairly 
begun. When Lee invaded Pa., he sent several N. J. 
regiments to the defense of the Sister State. He took 
such care of the state finances that her bonds never sold 
below par, and in 1865 she had $200,000 in the treasury. 
He favored amnesty to the Rebels. New Jersey gave 
him her full vote for President. Re-elected Gov. in 
1870 he next became Attorney General and in 1880, and 
again in 1887 judge of the Supreme Court of N. J. 

XXIII MARCUS LAWRENCE WARD AGE 72 

republican) 

Served lS(ifi-186'J — 3 years 

Born in Newark, N. J., Nov. 9, 1812. 

Died in Newark. N. J., April 25, 1884. 

His ancestor, John Ward, settled at Newark in 
1666, and his father was a Newark manufacturer. After 
receiving a practical education he engaged in mercantile 
business, then in politics, then in statesmanship. First 
a WHiig. then a Republican, he served as delegate to 
the National Convention at Chicago (1860) and Balti- 
more (1864). He acquired the name of "Soldier's 
Friend" during the war, by his untiring interest in his 
behalf on and off the field. He devised a free postal 
and free pension bureau. The "U. S. Ward Hospital". 
aft("r\v;ird>> "Disabled Soldiers' Home", at Newark, 



GOVERNORS OF NEW JERSEY. 19 

was named in his honor. He was defeated for governor 
in 1862, but was successful in 1865-8, and from Dec. 
1873 till March 1875 he was in Congress. Through 
him soldiers got their back pay and bounty monthly 
and soldier's families the collections sent on pay day. 

XXIV THEODORE F. RANDOLPH Age 67 
(democrat) 

Served 1869-1872 — 3 years 

Born in New Brunswick, N. J., June 24, 1816. 

Died in Morristown, N. J., Nov. 7, 1883. 

His father was the founder and for 40 years editor 
of the "Fredonian."' Educated at Rutgers College he 
was in business at the age of 16, and in 1840 he settled 
at Vicksburg, where he married Chief Justice Mar- 
shall's daughter. Returning to N. J. in 1850, he settled 
in Hudson, then Morristown, and in 1859 was member 
of the Legislature and State Senator till 1865, and Draft 
Commissioner in 1862. He effected while Pres. of the 
Morris and Essex R. R. its perpetual 7 per. cent, lease 
to the Delaware & Lackawana R. R. While Gover- 
nor, he made the State prison self-supporting, and 
helped establish the largest Insane Asylum (Morris 
Plains) in the world. During the Orange riots in N. 
Y. City — anticipating trouble — he took possession 
of the telegraph for military purposes. He served as 
U. S. Senator from 1874-81, and held other public 
trusts. 

XXV JOEL PARKER 

; DEMOCRAT , 

Served 1872-1875 — 3 years 
(See XXII ante) 

XXVI JOSEPH DORSETT BEDLE Age 63 

(democrat) 

Served 1875-1878 — 3 years 

Born in Mattawan, Monmouth Co., N. I., Jan. 3, 
1831. 

Died in (St. Luke's Hospital) New York City, Oct. 
21, 1894. 



20 HISTORICAL. HAND BOOK OF NKW JERSEY. 

His father, Thomas J. Bedle, a Common Pleas 
Judge of Monmouth Co., gave him an academic educa- 
tion, after which, in 1852, he was admitted to the N. Y. 
bar and the next year to the bar of N. J. After prac- 
ticing law at Mattawan, he removed, in 1855, to Free- 
hold, where he built up a good practice. Removing to 
Jersey City, he was appomted, in 1805, and again in 
1877, Judge of the N. J. Supreme Court, with a Circuit. 
Reappomted Judge, in 1872, he served as such till 1874, 
when elected Governor. In 1875 the College of N. J. 
conferred LL. D. upon him. His chief service as Gov., 
aside from his useful administrative and legislative re- 
forms and recommendations, was the quelling of the 
railway strikes of 1877. When his term ended, he 
resumed his legal practice, which he continued till 
shortly before his sudden death in a N. Y. City hospital. 

XXVII GEORGE BRINTON McCLELLAN Age 59 

DEMOCRAT) 

Served 1S7S-LS.S1 — o years 

Born in Philadelphia, Dec. 3, 1826. 

Died in Orange, N. J., Oct. 29, 1885. 

After being taught by private tutors and spending 
two years, 18-40-2, in the University of Pa., he entered 
West Point July 1, 1842, in the class of Stonewall Jack- 
son. Graduating in 1840, he entered the Engineer's 
Corps for the Mexican War and took part in leading 
engagements. At West Point, in 1818, as instructor, 
helped Capt. Maury explore the Red River, and later 
on was a Surveying Engineer on the Northern Pacific 
and in 1857 on the Illinois Central R. R. He was Vice- 
Pres. of the latter road in 1858. When the war broke 
out he was Pres. of the St. Louis, Mo. and Cin. R. R. 
His classmate. Gen. A. Burnside, called for his assist- 
ance — Apr. 23, 18()1. McClellan had charge of the 
Department of Ohio, which included Ohio, Indiana 
and Illinois and parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia. In 
May he crossed into Va. and occupied Parkersburg on 
his own motion and carried on an eight day s campaign, 
which freed western Va. from the rebels and led, Dec. 
31, 18(12. to its formation as a separate state. Created 
a Major Gen. Ma_\ 1 1, tlio rest of McClcllan's military 



GOVERNORS OF NKW JERSEY. 21 

history is well known. He was relieved from duty Nov. 
7, '62, and directed to await orders at Trenton, N. J., 
then N. Y. He took no further part in the war, except 
to write out his campaigns. In 1863 he visited Boston, 
and in 1864 delivered an oration at West Point. That 
year he became the Democratic candidate for Pres. of 
U. S. — • receiving 21 out of 212 Electoral votes. In 
1864 he went to Europe, where he remained till 1868-9, 
when he was employed to complete Stevens' Battery at 
N. Y. In 1870 he was Engineer in charge of the docks 
of N. Y. City. His residence was Orange, N. J. After 
serving one term as Governor of N. J., he declined re- 
nomination. He is described as solid and muscular, 
broad shoulders, firmly built and 5 feet 8 inches in 
height. In popularity with soldiers he has been com- 
pared to Napoleon the First. In 1852 he translated 
the Bayonet Manual of France and later edited his own 
Memoirs. 

XXVIII GEORGK C. LUDLOW Age — 

DEMOCRAT ) 

Served ls.sl-]S84 — 3 ytar.s 

Born in Milford, Hunterdon Co., N J.. April 6, 
1830. 

With a local school education, he entered Rutgers 
at 16 and graduated in 1850, when he commenced law 
study and in three years was admitted to practice at 
New Brunswick. He was as zealous in serving his 
clients as later his party — which in 1876 carried him 
into the State Senate, where he served on leading com- 
mittees and occupied the Chair. He declined re-elec- 
tion to the Senate. His governorship lasted from Ian. 
18, 1881 to Jan. 21, 1884. 



XXIX LEON ABBETT Age 58 

(democrat) 

Served 1884-1887 — 3 years 

Born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 8, 1836. 
Died in Jersey City, N. J., Dec. 4, 1894. 
His common school and law school education was 
obtained in Philadelphia, but his high rank as a lawyer 



li'J HIST(JRICAL HAND HOOK OF NKW JERSEY. 

was won in New York. Settling at Hoboken in 1802, 
he was in the N. J. Legislature in 1805-6, and again in 
180!>-70. and was twice elected Speaker. His Chair- 
manship of the Democratic State Convention in 1808, 
and of the State Delegations to the Democratic Na- 
tion Conventions of 1872, 1870 and 1880 gave him ad- 
ditional prominence. He was candidate for U. S. Sen- 
ator in 1888-!) — also Pres. of the State Board of Edu- 
cation in 1809, and in the State Senate in 1875-7. He 
served two terms. 1884-7 and 18!M)-93, as Governor, 
when great railroad combinations and controversies de- 
manded his attention. Steam yachting — sometimes 
as Commodore of the New Rochelle Yacht Club — was 
his favorite summer recreation. 



XXX ROni':RT STOCKTON GREKN Age 04 

I DEMOCRAT; 

Ser\-ed 1887-1890 — :^ years 

Born in Princeton. N. J., March 25, 1831. 
Died at Elizabeth. N. J.. May 7. 1805. 

His great-grandfather, a minister of Hanover, N. 
J., was chairman of the Committee which prepared the 
N. J. State Constitution in 1770, and his father a law 
professor at Princeton. The sun graduated from Nas- 
sau Hall in 1850, became a lawyer in 1853, a counsellor 
in 1856, when he settled at Elizabeth. In 18()8 a County 
Judge, in 1872 on a State Constitutional Commission, 
he was in 1884 elected to Congress. His party zeal 
made him a delegate in 1860 to Baltimore, in 1880 to 
Cincinnati, and in 1888 to St. Louis. As Governor the 
bills he vetoed were passed over his veto for nearly 
two years. In 1890 he was appoined Vice-Chancellor 
of the State, which position he held at the time of his 
death. 

XXXI M'J) N A H H IvTT ACE 5S 

DI.MOCk.AT 

Served 1S'.»0-1V.»:; — :; years 
(Sec XXIX above : 



GOVERNORS OF NEW JERSEY. 23 

XXXII GEORGE THEODORE WERTS Age — 

(democrat 

Served 1893-1896 

Born at Hackettstown, Warren Co., N. J., March 
24, 1846. 

Removing with his parents in 1849 to Bordentown, 
he there took the high school course — followed by a 
term in the Model School at Trenton. When but 17 
he studied law at Morristown, with his uncle, Attorney 
General Vanetta, and was admitted in 1867 to the bar 
of Morristown, where from 1883-1885 he was town re- 
corder and 1886 (when his father died) till 1892, its 
Mayor. For six years — sometimes as Pres. of the 
Senate — he was in the State Legislature. Certain 
liquor and ballot reform laws are his senatorial handi- 
work. On the appointment of Gov. Abbett in 1892, 
he accepted the position of Justice of the Supreme 
Court. He is said to have made no personal canvas 
for the governorship — besides a written acceptance of 
the Democratic nomination. His efforts to protect and 
preserve the Palisades was the crowning act of his ad- 
ministration. 

XXXIII JOHN WILLIAM GRIGGS Age — 

(REPUBLICAN ) 

Served 1896-1899 (? 

Born in Newton, Sussex Co., July 10, 1849. 

His father, a farmer. Graduating in 1868 at La- 
fayette College, he next entered a law office at Newton 
and began practice at Paterson in 1871. Politics early 
engaged his attention and in 1875 he represented Passaic 
Co. in the State Assembly, being its youngest member 
— age 26, in 1876. His favorite legislative work was 
constitutional amendments and new election laws. In 
1882 he was elected to the State Senate, serving six 
years, in 1886 being its president. Corporate taxation 
was his theme in the Senate. In 1888 he was delegate 
to Republican National Convention at Chicago, and in 
1892 was talked of for the U. S. Supreme Bench. Out 
of office, he divided his time between literature, law, 
his family, and the rod and gun. A plurality of 26,900 
greeted him Nov. 5, '95, when elected governor over A. 
T. McGill. 



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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF U. S. SENATORS 



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ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY 

Who was the "first" Englishman said to have made 
discoveries in America? Sir Amigell Wadd, of York- 
shire, Eng., a writer and member of the Court of 
Henry VIII. 

Who was the first Englishman to plant a colony 
in America? Sir Walter Raleigh, who, under a grant 
from Queen Elizabeth, in 1584, made an unsuccessful 
settlement at Roanoke, Va., naming the country after 
his Virgin(ia) queen. 

Under what patent was New Jersey next included? 
That of 1606. from King James to Sir Thomas Gates 
and others (known as the "London Adventurers"), 
which extended from lat. 34°, or the South line of N. 
Carolina, to New England — and was called "South 
Virginia." So that the latter embraced what is now 
New York, "New Jersey", Pennsylvania and Maryland. 
Several ships were fitted out by the London Co., but 
disaster and bad management caused a forfeiture in 
1623 of the grant to the crown. 

1609. 
The Dutch lay claim to what is now New Jersey, 
by virtue of the enforced landing during a storm of 
Sir Henry Hudson in Delaware ("South") River, on his 
way to the "North" River. They planted a colony and 
in 1623 erect "Fort Nassau" near Gloucester, N. J. The 
English dispute the Dutch title, by right of their dis- 
covery, but the Dutch, fearing England's power, put 
the blame of usurption on their East India Co. and 
ofifer to quit-claim their rights for £2500. 

1617. 
Settlement of Bergen by the Danes. 

1626. 
Another claim is set up by the Swedish king, Gus- 
tavus Adolphus, whose subject, Wm. Useling, a mcrch- 



"26 HISTORICAL HAND H(K)K OF NKW JKRSKV. 

ant of Stockholm, forms the "West" India Co.. which, 
aided by the king and his more weaUhy people, fitted 
out a colony of Swedes and Finns. 

1(;27. 
Arrival at Cape Henlopen of the Swedish Expedi- 
tion, whose managers buy the Indian title to both sides 
of the Delaware. (,which they call New Swedland) from 
the Cape to the Falls near Trenton. Their first landing 
they name "Paradise" Point. 

1630. 
At Ltwistown. or Hoarkill. between the Delaware 
Capes, Peter de Vries builds a fort, as a defence against 
the Dutch. 

1631. 

The Swedes build another fort and lay out a small 
town, which they call Christien, or Christiana, (after 
the Swedish Queen) 10 miles from Wilmington. Later 
they build a fort called New Gottenburg, on the island 
Tinicum. 16 miles above Christiana. A fort at Ches- 
ter also built by them. Sweden demands of England 
that she yield up her claim to ihc Delaware and the 
Dutch at first sided with the Swedes in expelling the 
English; but afterwards charged the Swedes with 
usurpation. Thus the Swedes, under their governors, 
Printz. Papeg(^ia, and Rysing; and the Dutch under 
Kieft and Stuyvesant continued to eye and covet each 
other's Delaware possessions, imtil finally a Dutch fleet 
and 600 men made their appearance in the Delaware 
and captured the forts and all that stood in the name 
of New Sweden. 

1631. 

King Charles I commissions Capt. Thos. Younu, 
who sails up the Delaware, but "is stopped by a ledge 
of rocks (Trenton Falls) which crosseth the river." 

1640. 
A few English families settle on Salem Creek — 
the Indian name of the i)lace being Asamohaking. 

1648 — Jan. 30. 
Large tract of land secured by tlu- Dutch at Uergen. 



ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY. 27 

1664. 

Plans by the English, under King Charles II, to 
dispossess the Dutch. Charles grants New York "New 
Jersey", etc., to his brother, Duke of York, and "be- 
fore" declaring war against Holland, sends Sir Robert 
Carre with a fleet to "take" possession of the American 
possessions of Holland. The Dutch, surprised and un- 
prepared, surrender everything, August "29, 1G64. 

Sir Robert Carre proceeds next with his fleet to 
the Delaware, lands at New Amsted (New Castle) where 
the possessions of the Dutch and Swedes pass, by ar- 
ticles of agreement (made Oct. 1, 1664) to "His Majesty 
of Great Britain." The same year, Oct. 24, Cartright 
and Aleverich are sent, by governor Nichols, to take 
charge of affairs on the Delaware. Cession of New 
Jersey ("Nova Caesarea") to Lords Berkeley, Carteret, 
et. al. Berkeley and Carteret formulate, Feb. 10, 1664, , 
a system of government for their new colony and this, 
the first New Jersey Constitution, remained in force 
till 1676, when the province was divided and Carteret 
took East New Jersey as his portion. 

1665. 
August. Governor Carteret, with 30 settlers, ar- 
rives at Elizabethtown. 

1666 — May 17. 
Newark settled by 30 families from Connecticut. 

1668. 

Gov. Nichols sends out fuller instructions for the 
government of the Delaware Colony and the suppres- 
sion of Indian troubles. The "Long Finn" difiiculty. 
Newark "Meeting House" built. 

Grant of 276 acres forming the site of Hoboken. 
May 26. First Legislature meets at Elizabethtown 
May 12. Bergen chartered Sept. 22. 

1669. 

Berkeley and Carteret, Patentees, appoint Philip 

Carteret governor of New Jersey, with power to make 

grants of land to settlers. He wisely purchased and 

quieted the Indian title — after his arrival with 30 



*JS HISTOKICAI. HAND HOOK OF NKW .IKRSEV. 

colonists, including servants. He settled at Elizabeth 
Town, so named after Carteret's wife. 

1»J71. 

Council of Gf)vernors. Lovelace and Carteret in 
New York. 

KITJ. 

Carteret returns to KnjJiland. leaving? Capt. John 
Berry to govern in his stead. 

Settlers with grants from Gov. Nichols vote at 
Elizahethtown for James Carteret, as governor. May 
14. First meeting house built by the Friends at Shrews- 
bur v. 

1«;73 _ March 18. 

Berkeley sells his half interest in N. J. to John 
Fenwick and Edward Byllings. Quaker-^. 

July. Seizure of the colony by the Dutch, who 
hold it for about a year, and then, by treaty, give it back 
to England. 

i<;7i. 

Gov. Carteret returns and publishes the new in- 
structions from the king and Sir Geo. Carteret, con- 
firming former grants and giving each settler living 
more than 10 miles. S(i. and less than 1<> miles from the 
sea. <)'» acres of land. This was a premium to encour- 
age the formation of "inland" settlements. Division of 
West Jersey — one-tenth to Fcnwich and nine-tenths 
to Byllings. who assigns to Wm. Penn and others, 
while Fenwick leaves his one-tenth to Eldridge and 
VYarner. 

Under treaty between England and Holland. N. J. 
again becomes an Iinglish province. Feb. 0. Byllings. 
financially embarrassed, sells out his interest in N. J. 
to I\nn. et. al. Nov. «]. Carteret returns — meets the 
Legislature at Bergen and is again in authority. 

1 <;::,. 

.\rrival of the "first'" luiglish ship to \\\-st Jersey, 
bringing a number of families and among them that 
of John Fenwick. from London. Trustee for Edward 
Billings of the undivided half interest in N. J., which had 
previously been the property of Lord Berkle> . 



ANNALS OF KKW JERSEY. 29 

1676. 

Wm. Penn uses "his" "kind offices" with the cred- 
itors of "ByHngs" to secure an amicable division of 
N. J. between them and Sir Geo. Carteret, who got 
the part with "most" settlements and improvements. 
The western half is divided into 100 shares — 10 going 
to John Fenwich and 90 offered to creditors in York- 
shire and London, England. 

First action — of record — to establish schools at 
Newark, Nov. 21. 

1677. 

Arrival in the "second" ship from London (the 
"Kent") of nine commissioners and 221 other passen- 
gers, who were landed in Raccoon Creek, near New 
Castle. These Quakers were said to have received the 
"blessing" of King Charles, as he saw them depart 
from the Thames. The Commissioners go to an island, 
near Burlington, and with goods buy the Indian title. 
Among the goods thus traded were "29 guns, 30 ket- 
tles, 30 coats, 30 "petticoats", 30 hoes, 15 barrels powder, 
70 knives, 30 axes, 70 "combs", 60 scissors. 60 toDacco 
tongs, 60 "looking glasses", 100 "jewsharps", 120 fish- 
hooks, 120 needles. 120 pipes. 200 bells and 6 "anchors" 
of rum." The 10 London and 10 Yorkshire proprietors 
join in laying out a town, on an island which is first 
called "New" Beverly, then Bridlington, then Bur- 
lington. 

1678. 

Arrival of the ship "Shield", from Hull. Eng.. the 
"first" to land so high up as Burlington. She touched 
the Philadelphia shore. 

1679. 

Samuel Jennings. Deputy Governor. Death of Sir 
George Carteret, proprietor of East Jersey. 

1680. 

Through Wm. Penn the king removes the 10 per 
cent, duty exacted by the Gov of N. J., on goods im- 
ported into New Jersey, and the Province rejoiced. 
That "blessing" was a practical one. 

Phineas Pemberton settles in the vicinity of 
Trenton. 



:;<» HISTORICAL HAND HOOK OF NKW JHRSKV. 

i«;8i. 

Coiiinii>>i"iiL 1 •- --urvfy and apijortion the lands be- 
Kmj^ing to the Lcjiulon and Yorkshire "tenths." The 
Assembly of New Jersey, in session from Nov. "2 1st to 
28th. and pass 36 laws in seven days. A highway from 
Burlington to Salem authorized. 

First disciplinary meeting of friends in this country 
held at Burlington. June 28. 

1C82. 

Ship of 5oO tons, with 3»!(t passengers aboard, gets 
aground between Phila(leli)hia antl Burlington. The 
Shore Indians kindly supply them with provisions. 
Legislative Assembly take steps "to preserve the liberty 
of the people by a 'free' assembly." Fine of three 
pounds on "citizens" and five on "foreigners" who sold 
rum to Indians. Grant. March 14. of K. New Jersey to 
24 "proprietors", by the Duke of York. In the circu- 
lar issued by the proprietors are mentioned Shrews- 
bury. Bergin. Newark. Middletown. Elizabethtown, 
Piscataway and Woodbridge. as considerable places, 
and the county as delightful. East TtMscy dividi-d into 
four counties. 

1683. 

The Scotch made settlements near Amboy. in R. 
Jersey, and had their i)roprietors and governors, like 
tlu- other provinces. First legislative grant of land for 
school purposes. 

I'erth Amboy laid out in lots and the first tavern 
in \. J. opened at Woodbridge. 

1684. 
Coopi-r. Ruiiyon. .uid Morris lay out the site oi 
Camden. 

1«;85. 
Death of C'harles 11. Episcopal Church and Court 
Hou^e built at Perth .\mboy. 

St. Peti-r's. the first b'piscopal church in N. J., 
formed at IVrth Amboy. 

1687. 
"Ilanl times" in New Jersey and Pa., and people 
toinpt IK-d to livr (in tish and lurbs. l-^uniiu" relieved 



ANNALS OF NE:\V JERSEY. 31 

by arrival of a ''corn" vessel at Phila. from New Eng- 
land, then the "Granery of America." Gov. Keith, of 
N. Y., has the line between E. and W. Jersey surveyed. 
Death of Byllings. Dr. Cox buys him out. Customs 
collections at Amboy. 

1688. 
Daniel Cox, governor of W. Jersey, and Robt. 
Barclay, governor of E. Jersey, agree on a division line 
between their two provinces. First Baptist Church at 
Middletown. Friends also use it. 

1691. 
Gov. Cox conveys the government of W. Jersey to 
the "West Jersey Society" for the sum of £8,000. 

1692. 

Col. Andrew Hamilton, governor of West Jersey. 
Great flood at Delaware Falls. Death of Thomas Olive, 
who came over in 1677 and was governor in 1684. 
Presbyterian churches at Freehold and Woodbridge. 

The Freehold and Woodbridge Presbyterian 
churches established. 

1693. 

Incorporation of Burlington, which is allowed a 
schoolmaster and the place taxed for his support. 

The General Assembly of E. N. J. at Perth x\mboy, 
enacts the first school law of the State for the main- 
tenance of a school there. 

1694. 
Custom House at Perth Amboy. 

1695. 
The town of Salem incorporated. 

1698. 
Andrew Hamilton. Gov. of E. and W. New Jersey. 
Sale of liquor at fairs prohibited. Arrival at Perth 
Amboy of Perthnick, the first Episcopal minister. 

1699. 
Andrew Hamilton reappointed Governor of the 
two Jerseys. 



32 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

170U. 

Brick meeting house at Salem. First sale of lands 
in Morris Countv. 

1701. 

Both E. and W. New Jersey disturbed by political 
schemes and changes, the product of "many men of 
many minds." Woodbridge school house given 10 
rods of land. Population of both Jerseys 15,000. 

1702. 
East and West Jersey surrender their right of gov- 
ernment to Her Majesty. Lady Anne, now Queen oi 
England. Forty-seven "proprietors" join in a formal 
abdication and the Queen accepts the profTer April 17 
and Dec. o. Lord Cornbury receives his commission 
as Governor and at once appoints his council. Instruc- 
tions were given the Governor and Council. The As- 
sembly was to have 24 members and sit alternately at 
Perth Amboy and Burlington. The "book of common 
prayer" to be used and liljerty of conscience granted to 
"all but" papists. Militia of N. J. numbers 14'Hi. "The 
Royal African Company of England" were enjoined 
"to have a constant and sufficient supply of merchant- 
able Negroes at moderate rates in money and com- 
modities." Hence this companion regulation. No 
printing press allowed, or book published, without 
leave and license of the Governor, who was to find out 
the best means to facilitate the "conversion of Negroes 
and Indians to the 'Christian' religion." 

17<i:!. 
.'\rrival of Lord Cornbury. who on his return irom 
N. v.. convenes the .•\sseml)ly with Thos. Gardiner. 
Speaker, at Perth Amboy. He lays down the law of 
royal and gubernatatorial authority to legislators and 
pcoi)lc. The Assembly's "only" business is to "raise 
a revenue" and "to i)rci)are bills to be transmitted into 
Etigland for Her Majesty's approbation." He sends 
the members to their homes when he thinks they have 
talked long enough. I'irst I'.piscopal service at Eliza- 
bethtown — wheri' the clinrrh cornerstone was laid in 
March. 



ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY. 33 

1704. 

Proclamation • of Queen Anne, dated Windsor 
Castle, June 18th, making coins uniform in value in 
the colonies. The legislature is summoned to meet 
Sept. 7th at Burlington to frame a militia system and 
build at Navesink a fort to protect against French 
privateers. Not suiting him, the Governor dissolves 
the Assembly and "elects" another more subservient 
to himself. The members then flattered him and he 
praised them more than their constituents did for vot- 
ing the Governor 600 out of 2,000 pounds tax for an- 
nual expenses. The servility of this Assembly is shown 
in dismissing, at the Governor's beck, Uiree of the best 
members "whose sin was in thinking" the people had 
a voice in the government. 

1705-8. 
With each succeeding legislature the arbitrary gov- 
ernor encroaches more and more on the assembly's 
rights, until the election of 1707 gave the people a ma- 
jority in the assembly, with Samuel Jennings, speaker. 
The latter proved mild, but firm and fearless, in his 
defence of popular rights. Growing bolder the As- 
sembly charge the Governor with "neglect" of official 
duty in taking the colonial seal with him to New York, 
where he spent nine months in the year! Other abuses 
and even crimes are laid to his charge, at last. Corn- 
bury gets his tool, the Lieut. Gov. Ingolsby. to address 
the Queen, laying "all" the trouble to two Assembly- 
men, "Lewis Morris and Samuel Jennings, a Quaker', 
whom he calls "rebels" against "all' authority, eic. But 
the people's grievances had more weight with tiie 
Queen, wlio recalled Cornbury and appointed Lord 
John Lovelace, in his stead. This is the verdict ot" 
New Jersey on Cornbury's administration: "No or- 
ders of men, either sacred or civil, were secure m then- 
lives, their liberties or estates, under Cornbury's arbi- 
trary rule." Road laid out from Salem to Morris 
River. 

1708. 
Death of the patriot Samuel Jennings. A new As- 
sembly, Tliomas Gordon, Speaker, meets at Bergin, 



34 HISTORICAL HAM) HOOK OF NKW JKRSEV. 

Dec. Jo, at tlic call of Baron Hurley, the new Governor, 
who says to the people's representatives: "You know 
best what the province can conveniently raise for its 
support and also the easiest method of raising it. " 

17ul». 
Assembly appropriates 3UU0 pounds to run the gov- 
ernment, and establishes a paper currency, to be re- 
deemed and not rei:>sued when soiled or torn. A sink- 
ing fund ordered. Loans made on double security for 
this jjaper at T) per cent. Death of Lord Lovelace and 
recall of Ingoldsby. Gen. Hunter appointed Governor 
and Independent congregations at Newark and Eliza- 
beth. \'olunteers offered for the Canada Expedition. 
Two huiulred is New Jersey's quota. The Governors 
meet at Perth .\mboy to debate on Indian affairs. Four 
Indian Sachems of the Five Nations taken to England 
and introduced to the Court of Queen Anne. Much 
made of them. 

1710. 

Gov. Hunter arrives and addresses the new As- 
sembly (whose speaker is John Kay. of Gloucester) 
thus: "If honesty is the best policy, 'plainness' must be 
the best oratory. Let every man begin 'at home' and 
weed the rancor out of his 'own' mind and the work 
is done. I shall heartily concur with you in enacting 
whatsoever may be requisite for the public peace and 
welfare, the curbing of vice and encouraging of virtue. 
'For all power e.\cei)t that of doing good is a i)urthen." 
Effort to relieve the Quakers of military fines a failure. 
Iron works built in \\'hii)pany. A member is expelled 
for signing in 17o7 a scandalous paper to the Queen. 
Memorial of .\ssembly to the Queen, which leads to 
the remov.il of members of Council obnoxjous to tiu- 
colony. 

1711. 

The Assembly i)lea>es the Governor by i)romj)tly 
voting IJ.'jOO "ounces of i)late" in bills of credit, for 
proposed Exjjedition to C\inada — the "Cod ll.shery" 
l)eiiig the ol>jective aim of tlu- expedition. 



ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY. 35 

1712. 

Death of Thos. Gardiner, of Burlington, Ex. Coun- 
cilman, Treasurer and Speaker. Cape May has a Bap- 
tist church. 

1713. 

New Councilmen appointed in place of those sus- 
pended for siding- with Lord Cornbury in 1707. Act 
legalizing the "Quaker's affirmation in place of oath, 
etc." Duty of ten pounds on each imported slave. 
Middlesex Co. has a jail. More sales and surveys at 
Chester, Mudam, etc. 

1714. 
Dutch Reform church at New Brunswick. 

1716. 
The State Assembly meets at Amboy and chooses 
Daniel Coxe for its Speaker. Gov. Hunter announces 
the Queen's death, the king's (George I) succession, a 
new patent, and commission as Governor received, 
and a renewed determination to serve the subject and 
the Crown. At the next session the Speaker and sev- 
eral members are expelled for neglect of duty and their 
reinstatements if elected forbidden! 

1717. 
Swedish church erected at Penn's Neck. 

1718. 
Destructive hail storm visits the province. As- 
sembly meets and provides for determining the bound- 
ary line (Lat. 41°, 40) between New York and New 
Jersey — also between E. and W. New Jersey. 

1719. 

Commissioners duly appointed by New Jersey and 
New York, the Surveyor Generals of each province 
assisting, met and fixed on the Fish Kill (N. W. branch 
of the Delaware) as the state boundary line. The ques- 
tion not finally settled till 1764. 

Arent Schuyler discovers copper mines near Belle- 
ville. 



S6 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1720. 

Gov. Hunter succeeded by \Vm. Burnett (son of 
Bishop Burnett, once (17u5) Lieut. Gov. of Va. Settle- 
ment of Rahway and Trenton, named after Col. Trent. 

1721. 

Dr. John Johnson, Speaker of the Assembly, and 
Lewis ^Iorris, Thomas Gordon and 10 others. Coun- 
cilmen. The Governor congratulates them "on the 
'treasures' lately discovered in the "bowels" of the earth, 
which cannot fail of circulating for the general good," 
and also on their not being "under a Popish King and 
a French Government"! Gov. Burnett, who was "ad- 
dicted to gaming"", and had written a book on the 
"Apocalypse", is thought to have had this bill intro- 
duced: "An act against denying the divinity of our 
Savior, Jesus Christ, the doctrine of the Blessed 
Trinity, the truth of His holy Scriptures and spreading 
atheistical books." It failed to pass, but his example 
continued. 

First freestone quarry in X. J. opened. 

172_>. 
Forge erected at Dover in Morris Co. 

1722-27. 
Presbyterian churches at Amboy. Xew Brunswick, 
and Wcstfield. 

1727. 

Burnett, governor of N. J. and X. V., transferred 
to Boston, and John Montgomerie succeeds him, hold- 
ing the office till his death. July 1781. 

1730. 
Merchanflisc lotteries jjrohibited. 

17;il. 
Lewis Morris becomes governor and holds the 
office till Aug. 1. 1732. 

1732. 
Aug. 1. \Vm. Cosby, governor of N. J, 



ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY. 37 

1734. 

Postoffices at Burlington. Trenton and Perth Am- 
boy. Boat and stage lines between X. Y. and Phila. 
via Bordentown. 

1736. 

John Anderson. President of the Council, looks 
after aftairs of State, until succeeded by John Hamilton, 
son of Ex. Gov. Andrew Hamilton. Aaron Burr's 
father, pastor of 1st Pres. church, Newark. 

1737. 
X. J. visited by an earthquake. 

1738. 
Lewis Morris commissioned as Gov. of X. J., now 
separate from X. Y. Served till his death in 1746, 
Princeton College founded. Lewis ^lorris. Gov. 

173M. 
\Veekly mail Phila. to X. Y. across X. J. 

174n. 

German Valley settled. Rev. Geo. Whitetield at 
Elizabeth. 

1743 — March 9. 

First iron output from furnace at Oxford. Warren 
Countv. 

1746. 

John Hamilton again Governor and Ex.-officio 
Pres. of the Council. His death, soon after, brings the 
next Councilman in rank. John Reading, into the Gov- 
ernor's Chair. Death in May of Gov. ^Morris. 

1747. 
Arrival of the king's appointee. Jonathan Belcher, 
who holds office for ten years. College of X'. J. incor- 
porated and located at Elizabethtown. but removed to 
Xewark in 1748. 

1748. 
College of X. J. removed to Xewark. 



38 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1750. 

Trenton Public Library established. 

1751. 
James Parker starts the first printing press at 
Woodbridge. 

1756. 
College of N. J. makes its second move to Prince- 
ton and founds Nassau Hall. Stage line, in Nov., be- 
tween New York and Philadelphia via Perth Amboy 
and Trenton. 

1757. 

John Reading, now as Pres. of the Council, again 
acting Governor. Death of Gov. Belcher x\pr. 76, also 
Rev. Aaron Burr, Pres. N. J. College. 

1758. 

Arrival of Francis Bernard, who. after two years 
service, is transferred to Boston. The first periodical 
in N. J. "An American Magazine" published at Wood- 
bridge. 

Indian title to N. J. ceded by the Indians — Mini- 
sinks, Waprings, etc. — for $1,000, at a conference with 
Gov. Bernard at Easton, Oct. 18. 

1760. 
Thomas Boone, after one year's service as Gov. 
transferred to South Carolina. 

1761. 
Josiah Hardy is removed after two years and ap- 
pointed Consul in Spain. Yearly meeting (Friends) 
transferred to Philadelphia. 

1763. 
William Franklin closes the line of royal governors 
of New Jersey, and the people parted from him in 1776 
with no regret. The people went even farther than this 
— the Assembly declaring his proclamation of May 30, 
'76, "unworthy of attention" and Congress not only 
declared him a "public enemy", but discontinued his 
salarv and ordc-rt-d Col. ITascrd. the militia Commander 



ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY. 39 

of Middlesex Co., to demand his written parole to 
vacate all authority. His refusal to sign caused his 
arrest, examination and sending, by order of Congress, 
to Connecticut for confinement. When released, he 
sailed for England, where he died in 1813. His father, 
Benjamin Franklin, was sorely tried by the disloyalty 
of his only son and refused to intercede for him, who 
had virtually taken up arms against "both" father and 
country. The Governor had secretly and openly op- 
posed the provincial Congress whenever it sought to 
co-operate with other colonies in furtherance of the 
cause of liberty and independence. Provoked at the 
disobedience of the House, the Governor prorogued it 
Dec. 6, 75, to Jan. 3, '76, but it never met again. A 
convention took its place, and Feb. 6, 1776. appointed 
William Livingston, Richard Smith, John Hart, John 
Cooper and J. D. Sergeant delegates to the Continental 
Congress at Phila. July 18, '76, the provincial Congress 
— which styled itself the "Convention of New Jersey." 
The first legislature, under the new Constitution met 
at Princeton. 

1765 — Sept. 
Stamp distributor Coxe is glad to resign his ofifice. 
Delegates (Oct. 7) to convention of nine colonies at 
New York publish a Declaration of Rights. 

1766. 
Organization in N. J. of the first Medical Society, 
July 23. First convention of Epis. ministers — from N. 
J., Connecticut, New York, and Philadelphia — held in 
Nov. at Elizabethtown. 

1770. 
Rutger's chartered as Queen's College at New 
Brunswick, by George III. 

1771. 
The Public Printer, of N. J., Isaac Collins, gets 
out an Almanac, which appears annually for 20 years. 

1774 — July 21. 
Wm. Livingston and forty others chosen delegates, 
at New Brunswick, to the Congress at Philadelphia. 



4(1 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OK NEW JERSEY. 

177.J — Jan. 11. 

The Assembly of X. J. approves the proceedings of 
Congress at Philadelphia. 

1777. 
The Council of Safety, with J. D. Sergeant as Treas- 
urer, had been appointed to act when the provincial 
Congress was not in session. Its first meeting, March 
IS. was at Hoddonfield. This Council of the State. 
or State Council, as it was afterwards called, had power 
to imprison enemies or suspicious persons, send traitors. 
and tories across the line, etc. This year occurred 
Gen. Washington's New Jersey campaign and capture 
of Hessians at Trenton. Other movements to check- 
mate or avoid Lord Cornwallis took the patriot army 
to Princeton. Morristown. etc. Gen. Putnam and Gen. 
Sullivan stationed at Morristown till the enemy left New 
Jersey. The sufferings of the troops during the winter 
of 1777-8 for want of both food and clothing was ter- 
rible. None had good shoes and 3.089 were in camp 
unfit for duty for want of clothes. 

1778. 
July. Congress adopts a form of ratification which 
the N. J. Del. and Maryland delegates do not sign. 
These states are appealed to by letter of SeDt. 14. which 
is laid before the Legislature by the Governor, who 
urges dispatch in the ratification as of the highest im- 
portance. The question of Crown lands was the stick- 
ing point with New Jersey. A new legislature is elected 
and convenes Oct. 27. at Trenton. \Vm. Livingston 
again chosen Governor. After much deliberation N. J. 
consents. Nov. 14. to waive her private rights for the 
public good and authorizes her delegates "to ratify the 
articles of confederation and union for the public good." 
She also votes to tax herself to the extent of loO.OOO 
pounds for the public needs. Sir Henry Clinton, fear- 
ing an expected French fleet, leaves Phila., crosses the 
Delaware and the State of New Jersey via An'iboy for 
Nfw York, and Gen. W'a-^hington tries to head him ofT. 



ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY. 41 

1779. 

N. J. State troops in a destitute condition. In 
]\Iay it was voted to raise one million pounds by the 
Dec. following to meet the demands of Congress and 
the necessities of the State. .\n act to regulate and 
limit the price of labor, merchandise, etc., suspended. 
Congress orders the states to raise $15,000,000. payable 
in monthly installments and $6,000,000 a year for 18 
3'ears. The depreciated currency explains these large 
sums — as the Governor's salary was 7,000 pounds, 
Chief Justice 5,000 pounds, and so on. People anx- 
iusly looking for relief to the Treaty with France. The 
Jersey brigade is stationed for the winter at Elizabeth- 
town to protect against British invasion from Staten 
Island. Depreciation of money goes from five or six 
dollars for one, to $27 or $28 for one, this year. 

Shepherd KoUoch establishes the N. J. Journal at 
Chatham. 

1780. 

Amount of Continental money afloat over $300,- 
000,000, and N. J. called on for means to redeem her 
share of the debt. Congress passes a resolution that 
the money be taken, at the rate of 40 to 1, and new 
issues, endorsed by the states, be made. Says Wash- 
ington: "Our financial concerns are in an alarming 
state of derangement; the public credit is almost ar- 
rived at its last stage." War confined to the South, 
while Arnold's treason confronts the North, Sept. 1780. 
Depreciation of money this year from 27 or 28 for one 
to 50 or 60 dollars for one. 

1781. 
Jan. 2. An act passed to ascertain the value of 
Continental mone}'^ and take it out of circulation. New 
Jersey complains that she is bearing "more" than her 
share of public burdens. The N. J. Assembly pass an 
act authorizing Congress "to levy duties of 5 per cent, 
advalorem on merchandise imported into this State and 
on prizes and prize goods and for appropriating the 
same." N. J. called on by Congress to pay her share 
of the 8,000,000 pounds required to carry on the war. 
Continental money almost stops circulating, after a few 
months, having depreciated several hundred dollars for 



42 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

one of specie. The states called on for specific supplies 
instead of money — as beef, pork, flour, etc. — but this 
plan failed. 

1782. 

May 4. The N. J. State Authorities declare that 
any person or state, which shall presume to treat, di- 
rectly or indirectly, with the enemy, shall be regarded 
as a common foe. Treaty of Peace signed Nov. 30th. 
The State furnished about 20,000 men out of a popula- 
tion of 100,000 for the war, and had only one Major 
General during the period. Her soldiers were not office 
seekers. 

Elias Boudinot chosen Pres. of the Continental 
Congress, Nov. 4. 

1783. 

May 19. Gov. Livingston congratulates the people 
of N. J. on the auspicious termination of the war. New 
Jersey, by act of June 11. authorizes Congress to levy 
duties on imports into its territory. Congress proposed 
to continue these duties for 25 years, to pay of¥ the prin- 
cipal and interest of public debt, amounting to 42 mil- 
lion dollars, of which eight millions was a foreign loan. 
N. Y. and Georgia opposed and defeated the measure, 
much to the disgust of New Jersey, whose share of the 
$1,500,000 to be raised annually would have been $83.- 
358. 

The Continental Congress meets June 30 at Trenton, 
and again Nov. 1, 1784. 

1784. 

Jan. 14. Congress ratifies the definitive treaty of 
peace, signed Sept. 3, 1783, between Great Britain and 
the U. S. Formal opening by the Dutch Reformed 
Church (as the result of a convention held in N. Y. in 
1771) of a Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, the 
first institution of its kind in .America. New Jersey 
now has eight furnaces and 79 forges for iron making. 

Incorporation of New Brunswick. 

1785. 
John Fitch, of Trenton, runs the "first" steamboat 
in the world. 



ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY. 43 

1786. 

N. J. appoints commissioners to meet those from 
Virginia and other states to consider "the exigencies 
of the Union", and "The Jersey Plan" is presented. 
New Constitution proposed for the Confederation. 
John Fitch petitions the Legislature for a patent on his 
steamboat invention. 

1787. 

Gov. Livingston is "more distressed", says he, "by 
the gloomy posture of our public afifairs than I ever was 
by the most gloomy appearances during the war," and 
adds, "I fear we shall not be able, for ten years, to sup- 
port the independence which has cost us so much blood 
and treasure to acquire." New Jersey, the third state 
to ratify (Dec. 18) the Constitution, Delaware and Pa. 
ranking first. The Convention advised N. J. to offer 
to Congress a "District", not exceeding ten miles 
square, for seat of Government, with exclusive juris- 
diction. Fitch secures from the Legislatures of New 
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware the exclusive right, 
for 15 years of running steamboats on their water, and 
Remsey the same privilege from Virginia, Maryland 
and New York. 

1788. 

Governor Livingston congratulates the State on its 
prominent part in framing and early adopting the Fed- 
eral Constitution. "Thanks to God that I have lived to 
see this auspicious period"! Wm. Patterson and Jona- 
than Elmer chosen (Nov. 25th) Senators and Abraham 
Clark, Jonathan Dayton, Representatives, to meet at 
New York in March 1789. William Livingston, the 
■first American or Union Governor of N. J., served from 
1789 to 1790, a period of 11 years. Fitch's second trial 
of his steamboat. 

1789. 

Congress meets at New York, 11 states being rep- 
resented. Twelve articles, as amendments to the Con- 
stitution, agreed on by Congress — but N. J. objects, 
by its Legislature, Oct. 29, to that article relating to 
the membership of the House of Representatives. 
Washington's journey, in April, from Virginia to New 
York, was "a perfect ovation" a "triumphal procession" 



44 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

— especially at Trenton and other places in New Jersey. 
His reception by "the gentle sex" is historical. 

1790. 
Congress agrees to assume "21 million dollars of 
State debts — and New Jersey's share was $8UU,000, 
which thus assumed, was to be loaned to the U. S. by 
the creditors holding the claims. The legislature di- 
rects the manner oi appointing Senators, Electors and 
Vice-President. Death, July 26, of Gov. Livingston 
and election, Oct. 'i!*, of Wm. Patterson, who served 
till March 1793, when he resigned to become Associate 
Judge of U. S. Supreme Court. Trenton selected, Nov. 
25, as the future seat of government. John Fitch's 
steamboat plies for hire on the rivers covered by his 
patent. First iron refining forge on the Paulinskill in 
Sussex Co. 

1791. 

The proposed loan to the U. S. of Creditor's Claims 
against N. J. amounts to $tiOO,(MMi and the Legislature 
asks Congress to extend the time. Six Postof^ces now 
in N. J. Wm. Paterson (174o-180()) the second gover- 
nor of N. J., served till 1798 — two years. He was born 
at sea and died in Albany, N. Y., at the age of 01. 

1792. 
One of the first rolling mills of the country in ope- 
ration at Dover. Morris Co. Trenton incorporated 
Nev. 13. 

1794. 

Kichard I lowed becomes governor and served till 
1801. He was born in Newark in 1753 and died in 
Trenton in 1802, at the age of 49. Iron manufactured 
in N. J.: 12o(» tons bar, l<>n(i tons pigiron and 8() tons 
of nail rods. 

I-'irst factory in X. J. to print calico, at Paterson. 

1795. 
Jonathan Dayton, Speaker of the House until 
March 3. 17f»7. and from May 1797 t.. March 1799. 

17!w;. 
Nucleus ni' (hi- Statr Librarx i-- loniu'd. 



ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY. 45 

1798. 

The Legislature forbids the interstate traffic in 
sla ves. 

1800. 

A nail factory in operation at Trenton. 

Wg Tien vote at Elizabethtovvn election — as they 
did undCi the Constitution of 1776. 

1801. 
Joseph Blnomfield appointed Governor and serves 
for one term — but is re-elected in 1803 and serves till 
1812. He died in Burlington in 1823. The Morris 
Turnpike Co. chartered. Also a turnpike from Eliza- 
bethtown to the Delaware via Morristown. From 1801 
to 1872 about 250 turnpike companies. 

1802. 
John Lambert, Vice-President of the Council and 
acting Governor. The "Federalist and N. J. Gazette" 
changed to "Trenton" Federalist. Jonathan Dayton 
U. S. Senator from 1<99 to 1805, and Aaron Ogden U 
S. Senator from 1801 to 1803. 

1803. 
Joseph Bloomfield re-elected Governor and serves 
till 1812. John Condit U. S. Senator from Sept. 1803 
to March 3, 1809. Third robbery of the State Treasury 
at Trenton. 

1804. 

The Legislature orders eight copies of Jefferson's 
Manual. Passage of an Act for the gradual Abolition 
of Slavery. Slaves in N. J. in 1800 number 12,422. 
Newark Bank, the first in the State, chartered. 

1805. 
Aaron Kitchell U. S Senator from March 4, 1805 
to March 3. 1815. 

1806. 
People allowed to vote for a coirt house and jail 
in Essex Co. The State House has a belfry, but is 
minus a bell to call legislators and courts together; so 



40 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JP:RSKV. 

a bell is ordered. A British vessel fires on an American 
Coaster off Sandy Hook. 

18U7. 

The Legislature provides for the choice of ele'^^tors 
for Pres. and Vice-Pres., and also Reprcsentat,- v^es by 
popular vote. Suffrage again denied lo wo nen be- 
cause a general election liad been carried by Iraud. and 
of course women did ii 

W'm. L. Dayton ( 1 remont and Dayt'on) b(jrn at 
Baskinridge, Feb. 7. 

1808. 

The laws and journals of Congress and the states 
ordered for the state library 1809. Bible Society formed 
to give away Bibles. Electoral vote of N. J.: James 
Madison 8, George Clinton ^. John Lambert U. S. 
Senator from N. J. ^ 

Organization of a Biblt ^ "Socty. 

1810.' 
Census of slaves in N. J., 1<>.8.*1. Glass works in 
operation at Glassbor« ». 

18U. 
A canal in Cumberland Co. chartered. 

1812. 
Princeton Theological Seminary (Pres.) chartered. 
Aaron Ogden, G«>\ernor until 1813, born in Elizabeth- 
town 17.5G and dird in Jersey City in 1839, aged 83. 
State Library catalogued. New Jersey places herself 
on record five {•'•• months bt lore war is declared as 
ready for war with Great Britain. 

1813. 
William S. iVnniiiifton, fourth Governor of the 
State, from 1813 tn 18J6.^ Born in Newark in 17r)7 and 
died there in 182(>. ;iged 69. W w Jersey begins to arm 
her 3000 militia. I 'rinceton iiu orporated. The "Quar- 
terly Theological and Religious Depository" started. 

1811. 
Iluson's cott««n tictory in opt-ration at Trenton. 



ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY. 47 

1815. 

James J. Wilson U. S. Senator from March 1815 
to Jan. 1821. Mahlon Dickerson, the seventh Gover- 
nor, served until 1817. He was born in 1770 and died 
in 1853, aged 83. A charter o-ranted John Stevens tor 
a railroad, wood and iron, from near Trenton to near 
Brunswick — to be called the N. J. Railroad Co. — 
this being "the first" railroad charter in America. 

181G. 
The Legislature creates a fund for the support of 
free schools in the State and orders $15,000 invested in 
U. S. Bonds, bearing 6 per cent. Clay Pit Creek and 
Canal Co. chartered. Gov. Dickerson advocates the 
connection of Delaware and Raritan rivers by canal. 

1817. 

Isaac H. Williamson Governor till 1829. He was 
born in Elizabethtown in 1769 and died there in 1841, 
aged 75. Mahlon Dickerson U. S. Senator till 1829. 
All dividends on certain stocks issued by the State to 
be used for school purposes. Billings' carding mill in 
operation near Newark. 

1818. 

Perth Amboy has a Methodist church. The first 
at Salem in 1784. School fund amounts to $113,238.78. 

1819. 
J. J. Wilson and Mahlon Dickerson represent N. J. 
in the U. S. Senate. 

1820. 
The N. J., Delaware and Raritan Canal Company 
chartered, and the Legislature authorizes the opening 
of books and taking of subscriptions for this canal in 
Philadelphia, New York and other cities. Townships 
may raise money to educate poor children. Jersey City 
incorporated. Glass works in operation in Hammon- 
ton, Atlantic Co., and Clemonton, Camden Co. 

1821. 
Electoral vote of N. J.: James Monroe, Virgiana, 8, 
and Daniel D. Thompkins. N. Y., 8. S. L. Southard 
U. S. Senator from Jan. 26, 1821, to Nov. 12, 1823. 



48 HISTORICAI^ HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1822. 
A State librarian appointed. Charter of the Wash- 
ington Canal Co., and survey of the Morris Canal route 

— luo miles — ordered by the Legislature. 

1823. 

Charter granted the Orange and Sussex Canal Co., 
and commission appointed to report cost and desir- 
ability of the Delaware and Raritan Canal. Paterson's 
two duck factories use a ton of Hax a day and supply 
the U. S. Navy with canvas. Joseph Mcllvaine U. S. 
Senator 1823-2)1. 

S. L. Southard, of N. J., becomes Sec'y of U. S. 
Navy. Sept. It). 

1824. 

Warren county erected. Arrival, Sept. 22. of Gen. 
Lafayette and the cities of N. J. vie to do him honor. 
Morris and Essex Canal Co. chartered — with capital 
one million, to connect at a cost of two million dollars 

— the Delaware and Hudson rivers. 

1825. 
The M. and E. Canal begun and completed by 1831 

— to allow 25 ton boats to go from Newark to Phillips- 
burg. Salem Creek Canal Co. born. Glass works at 
Waterford. S. L. Southard becomes Sec'y of U. S. 
Treasury. Biblical Repository and Theological Re- 
view started at Princeton. 

182<). 
Surrender for .•<!»< i.(mh) of the great Canal charter to 
the State, after 12 years' fruitless effort to get funds to 
build it. Ephraim Bateman U. S. Senator 182»i-2}). 
Population of N. J. 3(m».ooo. an increase since 177(). or 
first half century, of 175. ono. or 140 per cent. 

1827. 
Seth Bryden inaugurates the manufacture of mal- 
leable iron at Xewark. Townships authorized to raise 
money for the building and rejiair of school houses. 
Internal Improvement Convention held at Princeton. 
Theodore Frelinghuysen and Mahlon Dickerson I'. S. 
Senator>. 



ANNAI^S OF NEW JERSEY. 49 

1828. 
Canal £rom Newark to N. Y. Bay. Total vote for 
President 45,708. Southard becomes U. S. Sec'y of 
War. Congress authorizes the building of Delaware 
Breakwater. The "Central Committee ' report one- 
third the children of the State without schooimg of 
any kind. 

1829. 
Isaac H. Williamson, who had served as Governor 
since 1817, is succeeded by Peter D. Vroom, the ninth 
Governor, who serves till 1832 — three years. He 
died in 1873, aged 82. Glass works at Jackson in ope- 
ration. Edge Hill military school established at Prince- 
ton. Monument erected at Red Bank. The Trenton 
Federalist becomes the present State Gazette. Town- 
ships divided into school districts and $20,000 set apart 
to counties for common schools. 

1830. 

Slaves in N. J., 2,254, the census report. Delaware 
and Raritan Canal Co. chartered — charter 30 years to 
run — with 47 amendments thereto. Camden and Am- 
boy Transportation Co. — the first R. R. in operation 
in N. J. 

1831. 

Consolidation of the Delaware and Raritan Canal 
Co. with the Camden and Amboy R. R. — the State 
getting 1000 shares of the stock. Free schools started 
at Burlington. 

1832. 

Samuel L. Southard, the tenth Governor, serves 
till 1833. He died in Virginia, aged 55. When Gov. 
Southard became U. S. Senator Feb. 27, Seeley suc- 
ceeded him. 

Napoleon's brother, Joseph, living since 1812 on his 
1400 acre farm at Bordenton. Indian titles in the State 
.again extinguished for about $2,000. 

1833. 
Elias P. Seeley serves part of a term as governor 
and is succeeded by Peter D. Vroom, who serves till 
1836 — tliree years. Manasquann River and Barnegat 



50 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSKV. 

Bay Canal Co. chartered. The ^Morris Canal reaches 
Newark. First train passes over the Camden and Am- 
bov R. R. 

1834. 

Mahlon Dickerson becomes U. S. Sec'y of War. 
Lawrenceville Female Seminary and Bottleville and 
Montville Conal Co. chartered. Solitary confinement 
introduced into State penitentiary. The Commissioners 
of N. J. and N. Y. agree on the boundary line between 
the two states. 

Jackson appoints Mahlon Dickerson Sec'y of the 
Navy. June 3U. 

1835. 

Morris and Essex R. R. Co. chartered — and when 
completed the road had cost *27, 888,470.74. Wading 
River Manufacturing Co.. formed. 

183tJ. 
Philemon Dickerson, the thirteenth Governor, 
serves 1836-7. He was born in 1788. and died in 18(32, 
aged 74. Presidential vote of N. J. 51,729. Charter of 
the Camden and Atlantic R. R. Its 59 miles from 
Cooper's Point to x\tlantic City cost about two million 
dollars, or about $33,900 a mile. The penitentiary be- 
gun in 1832, completed at a cost of $180.000. and built 
of red sand stone from the Ewing quarries. 

1837. 
Wm. Pennington, the eleventh Governor, serves 
1837 to 1843. He was born in 179(). and died 18(12. aged 
6(). Atlantic and Passaic counties erected. Bergin 
Port Co. The old state prison declared a public 
arsenal. 

College for women — St. Mary's Hall — opened at 
Burlington. 

18.38. 

.Mercer county formed. Religious denominations 
demand a division of the public school money in pro- 
l)ortion to children taught. Public meetings at Tren- 
ton to remodel the school system. Great tire at Xew- 
ark. The Trenton and New Brunswick R. R. begun. 



I 



ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY. 51 

1839. 

Bitter dispute in the 26th Congress about the right 
of N. J. members to seats. This controversy called 
Gov. Pennington's "Broad Seal War." Commission 
appointed to inquire whether a State lunatic asylum 
is needed. 

1840. 

Presidential vote of N. J. 64,385. Hudson county 
erected and N. J. Historical Society formed at Trenton. 
The manufacture of silk from the cocoon begun at 
Paterson by John Rawle, of England. First anthracite 
furnace blown in Sussex Co. at Stanhope. 

1841. 
Electoral vote of N. J. stood: Wm. H. Harrison, oi 
Ohio, 8 votes, and John Tyler, of Virginia, 8 votes. 
The Pennington Seminary started — and both sexes 
admitted thereto in 1853. 

1842. 

The American Nickel Works — first in America — 
started near Camden — and its nickel used in our coins 
and its products in the ornamentation of the State . 
Capitol at Trenton. 

1843. 

Daniel Haines, the fifteenth Governor, serves 
1843-4 — one year, and is re-elected in 1848. Born in 
1804 he died in 1877 — at the age of 72. Freehold In- 
stitute started. Proposed revision of State Consti- 
tution. 

1844. 

Charles C. Stratton. the sixteenth Governor, serves 
1844-48 — four years. He was the first Governor 
elected by the people under the new Constitution. 
Presidential vote of N. J. 76,944. Camden County 
erected. Perth Amboy incorporated, and school super- 
intendents authorized. Washington Manufacturing Co. 
started at Camden. 

1845. 

The State House ordered roofed "in the style of 
the Mercer Co. Court House." State Supt. of Schools, 
F. F. King. 1845-52. Miss Dix, of Massachusetts, 



52 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NKW JERSEY. 

urges tile Legislature to provide for the insane. Fire 
brick factory started at Trenton. 

1840. 

War with Mexico calls out many volunteers from 
N. J. and Gov. Stratton furnishes one regiment of in- 
fantry. Burlington College and Newark Library 
founded. Town school supermtendents authorized. 

First authorization ot town superintendent of 
schools April 7. 

1847. 

Cooper and Hewitt, of N. Y., reoperate the furnace 
at Andover, Sussex Co., which made superior iron 
during the Revolution. In 1778 Congress ordered its 
steel made from this iron — but later seized the works, 
because owned by rebels. 

1848. 
Daniel Haines serves again, as Governor, 1848-51 
— three years. Total vote of N. J. for President 77,- 
765. Wm. L. Dayton and J. W. Miller. U. S. Senators. 
The State Lunatic Asylum — Trenton — opened. 

184<). 
Central Railroad of New Jersey chartered — and its 
75 miles from Jersey City to Phillipsi)urg cost when 
completed, $.!U,<>77,j|(»8.11. or about ^20.770 per mile. 
John Roebling, of Susi)ension Bridge fame, starts his 
wire works at Trenton. New Jersey raises $45,000 for 
Ireland's starving poor. 

1850. 
Ocean County erected. Housc^of Reiuge provided 
by the State and joint resolution to light tlie State 
House with gas. 

1S51. 

Cieorge \\ Vovl. the eightecnih CJovernor, serves 
1851-54 — three years. Born in 180!). he dies in 1872. 
age <).'J years. Charter of the Warren R. R., whose 10 
miles cost over three million di. liars, or about $187.- 
500 a mile, .\niiual apinttjuiatiitn for schools increased 
to $80,000. 



ANNAI^S OF NEW JERSEY. 53 

1852. 

Completion of the Central R. R. of N. J. J. H. 
Phillips, State Supt. of Schools from 1852 to 1860. 
State lands at Paterson sold and proceeds added to 
school fund. Total vote of N. J. for President 83,283. 
R. F. Stockton and J. W. Miller U. S. Senators. 

1853. 

Bordentown Female College established and the 
Morris and Essex R. R. completed. Charter of the 
West Jersey R. R., whose 81 miles cost about two mil- 
lion dollars, or about $24,691 per mile. 

Bordentown female college, started in 1851, char- 
tered. 

1854. 

Rodman M. Price, the nineteenth Governor, served 
1854-7 — three years. Born in 1816. Geological sur- 
vey of the State ordered. Teachers" Institutes estab- 
lished by law and one "Webster" given to each school. 
Camden and Atlantic R. R. completed and extension of 
charter to 18S8 granted the Camden and Amboy. 

1855. 

State Normal School at Trenton begins life with 
$10,000. Seaton Hall College started. Nassau Hall, 
or North College, built in 1756, destroyed a second time 
by fire — the first time in 1802. When first built it 
was the largest house on the American Continent and 
the Continental Congress once (1783) occupied it. 
Both British and Americans used it as barracks and 
hospital. 

1856. 

Total vote of N. J. for President 99.396. State 
Normal School opened — also Farnam's School at 
Beverly. Union Canal Co. chartered. 

1857. 

Wm. A. Newell, the twentieth Governor, served 

1857-60 — three years. Born in 1819 at Franklin. O. 

Union County erected. Completion of the West Jersey 

R. R. to Woodbury. The New Jersey State Gazette 



o4 HISTORICAL HAND HOOK 01-" NKW JKKSKV. 

becomes Daily State Gazette and Republican. (Jrigni- 
ally started in 17U1. 

1808. 
William Wright and John R. Thompson U. S 
Senators. 

185!J. 
John C. Ten Eyck U. S. Senator troni March 17. 
'5y, to March 3, 18(35. 

18UU. 
Charles Smith Olden, the twenty-tirst Governor, 
served 18GU-03 — three years. He was born in llii'J, 
and died in 187G, age 77 years. VVm. Kitchell made 
Geological Surveyor of the State. F. W. Ricord, 
State Supt. of Schools l8<JU-li4. Salem Creek and 
Woodstown Canal; and Morristown, Hanover and 
Barnegat Bay Canal Co. Number of slaves in X. J. 
reduced to 18, as compared with .i;2'A in 183U and lU,- 
801 in 1810. Total vote of N. J. for President of U. S. 
121,125. State Uniun Convention (Dec. 11) at Trenton, 
favors compromise between North and South. V 

1801. 

New Jersey allows the families of her militiamen 
:j^(.) a month and provides for widows over ^2,5UU,UUU — 
giving soldiers Jj>4 a month additional to U. S. pay. 
West Jersey R. R. finished to Bridgeton. The Mill- 
ville and Glassboro R. R. completed. .Mercer Zinc 
Works started. Joint resttlution Jan. 2'Jth of the N. J. 
Legislature, declaring it a public duty U) stand by the 
Union and yet favoring conciliatory measures with the 
South. Commissioners to a Peace Congress appointed. 
Population of State ti7(j,0UU. Extra session of Legis- 
lature and State loan of two million dollars, payable 
in four and vight years. The tirst company mustered 
in May 21 Ijy Capt. Hatfield, and went into camp at 
Trenton. 

18(i2. 

The Pres. calls on N. J., July 7. for five regimeni- 
of infantry and the Governor at once locales five canip>. 
Camp I'errine, at Trenton; Camji Stockt«)n. at Wood 
bury; Camp Frelinghuysen. at Newark; Camp N'reden 
burg, at l-'reehold. and Camj) l^iir ( )ak>. at hMeining- 



ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY. 00 

ton. The 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th Regt's mus- 
tered under this call. Draft ordered in Aug., but by 
Sept. 2 the five camps had 10,8UO volunteers, thus ob- 
viating the necessity. The State spends for war pur- 
poses over $500,000 this year. 

18G3. 
Joel Parker, the twenty-second Governor, served 
1863-66 — three years. He was born 1816, died 1888 — 
age 72 years. The Legislature authorizes the Gover- 
nor to receive the Agricultural land scrip due the State 
from Government. $10,000 appropriated for a Library 
wing to the Capitol. Pres. Lincoln's Emancipation 
Proclamation Jan. 1, '63. Quota of N. J. under the 
Draft fixed at 8,783 men, and Rendezvous at Beverly, 
Trenton, Newark, Freehold, Flemington, and Hudson 
City. Another half million spent for war. 

1864. 
Provision made to give Rutgers Scientific School 
the benefit of the College land scrip. C. M. Harrison, 
State Supt. of Schools — 1864-6. A survey of the water 
fronts of N. J. ordered with view to selling and leasing 
riparian rights. Completion of the Northern N. J. 
Railroad. The "Passaic Flax Mills" established at 
Paterson. Iron product of N. J. in 1864, 226,000 tons 
The 37th Regiment ordered under the 100 day men 
call, but were mustered out Oct. 1, '64. Total vote of 
N. J. for President U. S. 136,048. 

1865. 
Soldiers' Children's Home incorporated — site 
near Trenton. The "American Velvet Co." erects a 
factory at Paterson, its first being at Newark. The 
"Clark Thread Co." erects a $750,000 factory at Newark. 
The 40th and last regiment of the war mustered in 
March 10, '65. Electoral vote of N. J.: Geo. B. Mc- 
Clellan 7 votes, and Geo. H. Pendleton, of Ohio, 7 
votes. The State buys the Model and Reform School 
buildings at Trenton, and starts a Juvenile Offenders 
Reform School. 



56 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1806. 

Marcus L. Ward. Governor, served 1866-69 — three 
years. Died 1884 in Newark, where he was born — 
age of 7"J years. "The N. J. Home for Disabled Sol- 
diers" on Mt. Pleasant, Newark, ready for occupancy 
July 4. '66. State Reform Farm, 49(> acres, near James- 
bury, Middlesex Co., purchased and 10 years later it 
had 214 inmates. E. A. Apgar, State Supt. of Schools 
1866. State Board of Education established. Amer- 
ican Saw Co., capital $2o0,000, started at Trenton. 
Marion founded and the U. S. Watch Co. established 
there. Newark celebrates her 200th anniversary. State 
Board of Education established and sectarian support 
of schools abandoned. 

1867. 

Drew Theoloj?ical Seminary. 14 miles west of New- 
ark, started. Iron product of the State this year 275.000 
tons. Frederick T. Freelinghuysen chosen U. S. Sen- 
ator, Jan. 23. 1867. to fill a vacanc3\ Cattcl. the other 
U. S. Senator. Census shows 230.518 children between 
five and eighteen in the State of N. J. State Reform 
School at Jamesbury opened. 

1868. 

The New Jersey Collegiate Institute of Bordentown 
established. N. J. contains 13 glass factories, making 
over one million dollars in window glass and 20 fur- 
naces making more than that value of hollow ware. 
Total vote of N. J. for President of the U. S. 16:*>.12'2. 
Ai)prf)i)riation of $100,000 for schools. 

Legislative withdrawal of its ratification of 14th 
Amendment. April. 

1860. 

Theodore F. Randolph. Governor three vears, 
from 1860-72. He was born in 1816, and died in 1883 — 
age 67 years. The Mechanic Institute. Somerset Co.. 
established. Also the German Theological school of 
Newark. Boundbrook and Plainfield Canal Co. "Na- 
tional Guard Law" passed by the Legislature — provid- 
ing not more than 60 companies of infantry, but was 
modified in 1872 and 1877. George M. Robeson, Sec'y 
of U. S. Navy. 



ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY. 57 

Surrender, after 40 years monopoly, of reserved 
rights of Camden and Amboy Railroad, and Delaware 
and Raritan Canal, thus securing "free trade" across 
the State. Bequest of "Stevens' Battery" and if;l, 000,000 
for its completion, accepted by the Governor for the 
State. 

1870. 

Overpeck Creek Canal Co. formed. The Raritan 
and Delaware Bay R. R., chartered in 1854, becomes 
the N. J. Southern. Its 49 miles from Sandy Hook to 
Tom's River cost $6,000,000. Newark's manufactures 
amount to nearly $40,000,000 a year. Hints of the forth- 
coming Centennial. 

The Legislature declines to ratify the XV Am.end- 
ment, Feb. 15. 

1871. 

Land for the Morris Plains Asylum (Morris Co.), 
430 acres. $82,072.11, purchased, and later buildings 
costing $2,250,000 erected thereon. Occupied Aug. 17, 
1876, and that year it has 346 inmates. Reported Mica 
mines in N. J. All public schools made free of tuition. 
New Jersey Coast Canal Co., capital ten million dollars. 
United Roads and Canal leased to Pennsylvania Central 
for 999 years. 

Opening of Stevens Institute of Technology at Ho- 
boken, and State Industrial School for Girls at Trenton. 
Inauguration of the free school system in N. J. 

1872. 
Joel Parker again Governor. Served 1872-1875 — 
three years. Capitol enlarged to accomodate the Senate 
and House, and $120,000 appropriated. The State ap- 
propriates $5,000 annually for three years to State 
Library. The proceeds of riparian leases ordered into 
the school fund. Product of the iron mines of the State 
for the year 1871 — 450,000 tons, of which four-fifths 
came from Morris Co. and one-fifth from Warren, Pas- 
saic, Sussex and Hamilton counties. Congress pro- 
vides for the Centennial of 1876. Presidential vote 
169,065. 



5> HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1ST3. 

Joint resolution of Legislature empowering tlu 
Governor to appoint a commission to suggest consti- 
tutional amendments. Founeen persons named. X. J 
has o(N) deaf and dumb. 6«>» blind. l.'»«X> imbecile per- 
sons. Charter of the Delaware and Boundbrook R. R 
from Trenton to Boundbrook. Its 27 miles cost abor 
three million dollars. Product of X. J. iron mines : 
1873 — 66o.6o2 tons, worth *3.32S.26«>. The Govern- 
calls attention to the Centennial. Grant and \Vils< 
get the electoral vote of Xew Jersey. 

Passage of a "general railroad law", prohibiting ar-: 
future "e.xclusive" privileges. 

1874. 

Iron mine product of X'. J. o2o.(»7o tons. The Gov- 
ernor. Comptroller and Treasurer of X. J. authorized 
to subscribe 10.<XH) shares at |1«» each to the stock ' 
the Centennial — to aid in erecting suitable building- 
Compulsory education law passed. 

The "Stevens Battery", in building since 1843. at a 
cost of $2.-5<».«Xh>, is sold to the U. S. for $14o,(mm. 
Xewark Citv Home Reform School opened at Veron . 
Xov. 2. 

1875. 

Joseph D. Bedle. the twentj--sixth Governor 
served 1875-78 — three years. He was born in 1831. 
The Constitutional Amendment Commission submit 
their work, which is referred to the people, who ratify 
it. The Governor of X. I. authorized to appoint a 
"X '^ ~ • ^- _4" ^j 5pven persons. 

U 77. Population of 

the . ...- . . ^. . ......^ .... males of native birth 

378.124. females 388.108. 

1876. 
Value of real estatp in Xew Jersey $445.9 1 8.22 1. 
Personal propertv- ^' """40. Total <^><>.4 15.561. 
Total taxable valuat 4.707.70. Vote of X. J. 

a; is the C- h 

I'l. : .. - State B .; . . :o 

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The R. R. strikes prevailing in Pa. averted in X. J. by 
early call on militia. Cost $.")5.<»(ki. 

Soldiers' Children's Home 'Mosed and State Board 
of Health created, and the Centennial of capture of 
Princeton celebrated. 

1878. 

The Legislature reduces taxes one-half, and the 
rate of interest from 7 to (J per cent. Brdjery in elect- 
ing delegates to political conventions prohibited. Pri- 
mary meeting law passed. Bureau of Labor and Sta- 
tistics established. State National Guard has 3.0.">8 of- 
ficers and men. The 58 Railroad companies of the 
State have L< >•'>.! miles of road and pay about $0"M),uOO 
in taxes. Cranberry product estimated at 300.000 
bushels. 

187M. 

One hundred and third session of Legislature, 
which n(jw meets annuallv. \Vm. J. Sewell. Pres. of 
Senate, and S. B. Jackson. Speaker. Special Tax Com- 
missi(jn authorized and Industrial Schools established. 
Gov. G. B. McClellan nominates law judges, but the 
Senate rejects them. Shoe manufacture in State pris- 
ons i)rohil)ited. .Attempt to revive (dd Sunday Statutes 
by Liberal League in convention at Newark. The Ciov- 
ernor seeks to improve the Militia System. Railway 
and I'llizabeth in financial straits. A survey of the oak 
and pine lands in southern N. T.. S. E. of the marl belt, 
show L''>8(i.(Mio acres, or two-fifths of the State's area. 
Normal School opened at Newark. Edison exhibits 
at his laboratory built in 187«J at Menlo Park — his new 
incandescent electric light system. 

1880. 
A Republican majority in both Houses, and S. B. 
Oviatt. Speaker, .\g14re1rate onicial salary list of the 
State estimated at $7!>,777. Biennial Session .Amend- 
ment to be voted for. The (iovernor and Legislature 
not agreed as to Judges. Special Tax Commission Re- 
port. Special Cf)mmission to propose general laws to 
govern mtmicipalitics. The shoe manufacture employs 
^(]i< convicts and <tver (I.o(K) free laborers. State .\gri- 
cultural College and Rutgers Scientific School are 



ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY. 01 

made one. Electoral vote cast for Hancock. Geo. C. 
Ludlow (Dem.) elected Governor. 

1881. 
Legislature Republican and \Vm. S. Sewell chosen 
U. S. Senator. Riparian Commission "receipts" on 
grants and leases over $200,000, or since 1864 about one 
and one-third million dollars. The State Alilitia num- 
ber 223,094. Total taxable property in the State over 
525 million dollars, an increase in a year of about nine 
millions. Dr. Leeds reports of^cially, the amount or 
extent of food adulteration in the State. Charter 
granted St. Benedict's College, opened at Newark in 
1868. President Arthur appoints, Dec. 12th, F. T. 
Frelinghuysen to be Secretary of State. 

1882. 
George C. Ludlow (Dem.) Governor. Legislature 
in session about 80 days. It provides that women shall 
be eligible as school trustees — that each town may 
have a public library, and divides cities into four classes, 
from Seaside resorts to those of over 100,000 popula- 
tion. Crab fisheries produce more by $162,612 than any 
other State and clam fisheries next to New York. 

1883. 
Legislative session of 73 days. J. R. McPherson 
re-elected U. S. Senator. Amount invested in R. R. 
property in N. J., .$227,384,534. Of the 4,452,730 lineal 
feet of riparian lands owned by the State 500,703 have 
been disposed of by lease or otherwise. Price 20 cents 
on sea beaches to $50 on Hudson and N. Y. Bay. Agri- 
cultural College supported from proceeds of lands given 
it, and Rutger's College by the Gen. Government. 
Boundary line of 1777 between N. J. and N. Y. re-run 
and the stones renewed. The Governor appoints six 
persons a Council of State Charities and Correction. 

1884. 

Leon Abbott (Dem.) Governor, and H. C. Kelsey 

Sec'y of State. Legislature in session over 80 days. 

and passes laws against prison contract labor — and 

against cities owing over $13,000,000 and expending 



on HISTORICAL HANI) HOOK OK NEW JERSEY. 

more than !J0 per cent, of tax levy; also exempting sol- 
diers ot late war Irom taxation. Organizing a State 
Board of Agriculture, and for better preservation of 
the health of female employees in manufacturing estab- 
lishments. Agricultural College fund $11(5. ooo. Over 
10(1. (»(M> acres of Oyster lands in N. J., producing over 
Toit.niM ».()(»( I oysters. Forest fires in N. J., New York, 
and Pennsylvania. 

1885. 
Legislative session of about "<» days. Annual ap- 
propriation for Geological survey extended five years. 
Railroad companies prohibited from leasing their lines 
without legislative consent. The census shows that 
Hudson and Essex Counties have two-thirds the Ger- 
man population, and Hudson one-third the Irish popu- 
lation of the State. Death, in May, of Ex. Sec'y Fre- 
linghuysen, and Oct. 2<>, at Orange, of Ex. Gov. Mc- 
Clellan. State school for deaf mutes opened at Cham- 
bersburg, near Trenton. 

1880. 
Legislative impeachment trial of a State prison of- 
ficial, and appropriations of |22o.(M)U for rebuilding State 
House. Drainage land and oystei protecting bills 
passed. The State troubled in collecting taxes due 
from Morris and Essex and other Railroads. The State 
Senate oi)poses the B. and O. R. R. in its plan to bridge 
Arthur Kill. 

1887. 
Robert S. Green (Dem.) Governor, and H. C. Kel- 
sey Sec'y of State and Insurance Commissioner. It 
took two months for the Legislature to choose an U. S. 
Senator in place of Sewell, but Rufus Blodgett (Dem.) 
won on the l-^th ballott by 42 to 'M. State Board of 
Agriculture, lioard of Health, and Bureau of Vital Sta- 
tistics established. .•\j)])roi)riation of $15, (MK) for a mon- 
ument on Trenton battle ground. Labor Day made a 
legal holiday. Women authorized to v<ite at District 
school meetings. State military camp secured at Sea 
Girt. $4. DUO per amium reiUal. 

ISHS. 
Robert S. (ireen (Dem.) (iovernor. The 112th 
Legislature in session about So days, and passes a local 



ANNALS OF NEW JKRvSKV. .63 

Option High License Law over the governor's veto. 
Pursuant to act of 1886, $50,000 is appropiated for a 
soldiers Home. Boundary line re-survey between N. J. 
and N. Y. confirmed and another commission author- 
ized to run the water hue boundary in the Hudson, Kill 
vcn Kull, etc. The Democratic National Electoral 
ticket won. State home for education and care of feeble 
minded children opened. 

1889. 
One hundred and thirteenth Legislature in session 
71 days. Re-election of J. R. McPherson U. S. Senator. 
Repeal of local option law of 1888. All corporations 
except R. R. and Canal, authorized to increase their 
capital stock. Act giving those engaged in manufactur- 
ing goods a lien on such goods. The channel water 
line between N. J. and N. Y. agreed upon by State 
Commissioners. Repeal of the local option and high 
license law of 1888, and new high license law enacted. 

1890. 

Leon Abbott (Dem.) Governor, and H. C. Kelsey 
Sec'y of State. New election (Australian ballot) law 
passed. The Governor's salary increased to $10,000, 
and $40,000 appropriated for new State Normal School 
building, and $25,000 for Industrial School for Girls. 
Soldier's Home has 463 inmates. Indictment, May 26, 
of 6S men at Jersey City for election frauds. N. J. has 
2,117 miles of railroad as against 14 miles in 1830 — 60 
years ago. N. J. has $1,445,285,114 of the $65,037,391,- 
197 worth of property in the U. S. — which if equally 
divided would give each person in N. J. $1,000. 

Death, at Montrose, Jan. 1 — age 88 — of Horatio 
Allen, the first locomotive engineer in the U. S. 

Strike, Dec. 10, of 2,000 Clark's thread millers at 
Newark and Kearney. Strike declared off April 18, '91. 

1891. 
One himdred and fifteenth legislative session at 
Trenton. It selects a State Comptroller and Treasurer. 
Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners abolished and 
new Congressional Districts made. State Board of 
Taxation created. Laws providing for permanent road 



t'A HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

improvements at State and County expense. Manual 
Training School established. Saturday afternoons 
made half holidays. Of the 34.3<>7 farms with 2,93'J,773 
acres, 313 farms with 18.4^<7 acres are abandoned. One- 
third of these are in Warren. Susse.x. and Somerset 
Counties. The ♦>38.4o8 acres devoted to "Cereals'* were 
divided thus: Corn 360,915 acres, wheat 138.833 acre-. 
and oats 138.70(.i acres. 

Saturday made a legal half holiday. Rutger's gets 
from Congress certain funds in aid of agriculture and 
mechanic arts. Smokeless powder, first tried July 2", 
in U. S. in Sinch rifled gun at Sandy Hook. 

18!>2. 
Governor. Leon Abbott (Dem.). Sec'y of Stai . 
Henry C. Kelsey. Treasurer. George R. Gray. Attorney 
General. John P. Stockton. Supt. Pub. Instruction. A. 
R. Poland. Chief Justice. Mercer Beasley — serving his 
fifth term of seven years — and nine associate justices. 
Chancellor. A. T. McDill. and four \'ice-Chancellors. 
Death, March 26. at Camden, of Walt Whitman, born in 
1819. State finances show receipts for the year of .*!.- 
915.937.89. of which the School Fund receives .*2«i2.- 
230.31. State War debt about .«1.<;h><>.o(»o. Of the 2377 
taxed corporations in the State 3o are capitalized for 
more than ^3.<>0(».ooo each, and one for $5o.(mki.0ii0. The 
assessed value of railroad property for 1892 over 216 
million dollars. Savings Bank deposits of the State 
amount to over 33 million dollars. Number of chil- 
dren of school age. 4<»2.7o2. The cost of maintaining 
H16 inmates of State prison. $83.<>77, or ^!li».7<> each, and 
the salary bill was ^2.'V2~. State Reform School cost 
over *54.<>ou. and the Industrial Sch<^ol for Girls ^'i8.- 
54!».S4 in 18!)2. Proposed ship canal through X. J. from 
Philadelphia to New York, and $25.<mmi for making a 
survey, asked. 116th legislative session at Trenton. 
Inheritance or Legacy Tax Bill passed. $•')(». (KM) addi- 
tional appropriated for World's Fair. 55 hours made 
a legal weeks work. Olliccs of Supt. of School Census 
created. The Legislature tries to legalize the lease of 
the N. J. Central to the Reading R. R.. which causes 
much discussion. Electoral vote of the State cast for 
Cleveland and Stevenson. George J. Werts (Dem.) 



ANNAI^ OF NEW JERSEY. 65 

elected Governor. Meeting, May 2, of the American 
Library Association at Lakevvood, N. J. Launch at 
EHzabeth. April 30, of U. S. Cruiser Bancroft, the first 
war vessel built in New Jersey. Paterson City cele- 
brates its Centennial July 4th. 

1893. 
Governor. George T. Werts; Sec'y of State, Henry 
C. Kelsey; Treas., Geo. R. Gray; Att'y Gen., John P. 
Stockton, and Justice of the Supreme Court, Mercer 
Beasley. The Legislature, in session nine weeks, 
passed three race track bills, which the Governor vetoed, 
but they became laws over the veto. The excited peo- 
ple sent in unavailing petitions for repeal. The sale of 
newspapers, milk, etc., on Sunday made legal. The 
State War debt reduced to less than $900.00U. Value 
of real and personal property subject to taxation for 
1893-4 about 766 million dollars. Railroad property 
about 225 million dollars. About $5 in school tax for 
each school-age child is raised annually. About 90.000 
children attend no school — while 243.254 are enrolled, 
with 4.644 teachers. Private schools have about 50,000 
pupils. The deafmute scholars cost $275 each. Of the 
461 disabled soldiers, 273 draw pensions — their average 
age is 62, and they cost the State $20,330, and the U. S. 
$28,313 in 1893. State Hospital property worth $3,513,- 
690. The insanse cost the State about $225,000. Monu- 
ment 150 feet high dedicated Oct. 19 on the Trenton 
battlefield. Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut 
were contributors to the artistic work. About 1500 
marriages were '"celebrated" at Jersey City, and about 
450() at Camden, by persons who found the way to 
harmony or heaven easier in N. J. than N. Y. or Pa. 

1894. 
Jan. 9. Two State Senates in session. The Gover- 
nor recognizes the Democrats Jan. 10 — the Repub- 
lican members force an entrance to the Senate Chamber 
and Jan. 23 reject the Governor's proposition to settle. 
Jan. 15. D. and W. R. R. collision at Hackensack; 
killed 11, wounded 40. March 2. Strike of silk weavers 
at Paterson and riot March 13, and conviction of six. 
March 21. Supreme Court declares Republican Senate 



(30 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

lawful. March 27. Race track repeal bill passed over 
Governor's veto. April. 11. Two vessels and all on 
board lost on N. J. Coast. Stockyard fire at Jersey 
City. Loss $250,000 June 24. A tug and 50 fishermen 
lost off Atlantic Highlands. July 5. National Good 
Roads Convention at Asbury Park. July 10. National 
Educational Association at same place. July 11. End 
of Pottery strike (begun Jan. 1) at Trenton. Fertiliz- 
ing Works at Rahway burned. Loss $500,000. July 
24. The King's Daughters and Sons meet at Ocean 
Grove, where Aug. 1 convenes the National Temper- 
ance Society. Oct. 10. Veteran Union League con- 
vene at Newark. 

Governor, George T, Wertz (Dem.); Lieut. Gov.. 
Henry C. Kelsey; Treas., Geo. R. Swain. Total net 
receipts of State. $2,148,725.03. About $105,000 added 
to the school fund from Riparian rents since 189<>. and 
about same amount of war debt concelled, leaving $735,- 
400 unpaid. The 118 railroad and canal properties in 
N. J. assessed at $222,054,373 and taxed for $1,518,031. 
On the 4,140 miles of railroad track 1,718 people hurt 
(278 killed) in 1894. Legislature in session from Jan. 9' 
to May 20. with two rival Senates to block legislation. 
The Supreme Court — nine justices — Abbott dissent- 
ing — decided. March 22, against the Dem. Senate^ 
whereupon officers (Treasurer, Comptroller, etc.), were 
duly commissioned and 14 repealed laws re-enacted. 
Laws passed permitting Hags for school houses to be 
paid for out of school fund — to provide free text books 

— to suppress lotteries and gambling — to prohibit all 
religious service in public schools except Bible reading 
and the Lord's Prayer. The 19,075 U. S. pensioners 
N. J. received $2,008,215. and those pensioned by the 
State $5,877.13, and the Home for Disabled Soldiers had 
U) its credit *03.478. .About $5().(l(M» came in 18!>4 irom 
the labor of 1000 convicts. Ship canal across N. J. pro- 
posed, to shorten the present 250 miles from Phila. to 
N. Y. to 90 miles and 15 hours time. .An electric road 

— capitalized for $10,500,000 — to run diagonally 
across N. J. from N. Y. to Phila. chartered, to facilitate 
tlu- travel of five million ])c'()pU'. 

IS! 15. 
(ln\(Tnor, (ico. 'I'. W'crtz. I'dection. Tan. 23. oh 



' ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY. 67 

' Gen. Wm. J. Sewell, to succeed U. S. Senator McPher- 
I son. Death, Jan. 25, of Vice Chancellor Van Fleet. 
I Confirmation by Senate, Jan. 28, of Justice Garrison for 
' Supreme Court and A. B. Poland for Supt. of State 
i Board of Education. Adoption, Jan. 28, after much 
petition and debate, of Anti-Gambling Amendment to 
the Constitution. Death at Orange, Feb. 4, of Mrs. 
Brown, the first President of Federation of Women's 
Clubs. Collision with loss of life, March 1, of Reading 
trains at Bayonne. Veto, March 7, by Gov. Wertz, 
of Judiciary Bill, passed March 14, over his veto. 
Death, ]March 19, of Adam Badeau, the military secre- 
tary of Gen. Grant. Adjournment of Legislature to 
June 4. State House Coal robbery by ol^cials exposed 
March, 23, by Legislative Committee. Death, March 
25, of A. S. Barber, the journalist. Harvard defeats 
Princeton in debate March 27. Delia Parnell (Parnell's 
mother) assaulted April 19, near her home at Borden- 
town. Legislature meets June 4, and adjourns June 13. 
after hearing investigating committee's "Extrava- 
gance" report. June 14. Trenton grand jury indicts 
16 public officials and contractors. Meeting of Amer- 
ican League — 3000 wheelmen — July 8, at Asbury 
Park. Violent and destructive wind storms July 13 in 
N. J. and Long Island. Princeton College Geological 
Expedition in Yellowstone Park safe, July 23, from re- 
ported raid of Bannoch Indians. Aug. 5. The Brock- 
way gang of counterfeiters discovered and caught at 
Hoboken. Arrest, Aug. 30, by U. S. officials in N. J., 
of 20 armed Cuban volunteers, with 28 cases of muni- 
tions of war. Earthquake shock Sept. 1 in N. J., N. Y. 
and Pa. Sept. 26. Democrats nominate Chancellor 
McGill for Governor. State prison plot to escape frus- 
trated Nov. 26. The Referendum Question debate 
(Dec. 6) betvven Princeton and Yale. 

1896. 
Jan. 11. Republican Caucus selection of L. A. 
Thompson, of Somerville. for President of the Senate. 
The r20th session of the Legislature begins Jan. 14, 
and ends March 26 — lasting 71 days. The message of 
Gov. Wertz — dealing wholly with State afTairs — em- 
phasizes the value of good roads and the placing of 



68 HISTOKICAI. HAND BOOK Ol" Ni:\V JHKShV. 

iron rails for use of wagons, on common roads. U. S. 
Senator Sewall. in a Senate resolution antagonizes the 
Administration on the Monroe Doctrine. Jersey City 
$7U. <»()(» fire Jan. 1!>. Inauguration. Jan 21. at Taylor 
Opera House, of Governor Griggs, who was sworn in 
by venerable C. J. Beasley and received the Great Seal 
of State from retiring Governor Wertz. The Governor 
advocated feuer statutes, fewer offices, fewer fees, fewer 
electric trollies, less partisanship and more good gov- 
ernment. Stranding. Jan. 25, of the big steamer St. 
Paul olY Long Branch, and her release. Feb. o. Sink- 
ing. Jan. 28. ofT Barnegat. of the Hawkins — with 
Cubans aboard — and pursuit of survivors («> drowned) 
by U. S. officers. Spanish spies at Perth Amboy. Feb. 
5. watching suspicious outfitting vessels. Boundbrook 
flood fire and famine. Feb. (i. Large Virginia delega- 
tion inspect the ways of the Good Roads State. N. J. 
Watch Co. formed to establish offices in chief cities of 
America, Europe and Africa. Bill passed, March 2, to 
preserve the Hudson River palisades. College of New 
Jersey changed. May 27, to Princeton Universit>. 
Nomination, June 18. of G. A. Hobart for Vice-Pres. 
of the U. S. The Sesqui-Centennial (loOth) of Prince- 
ton. Hobart chosen, Nov. 3, by vote of 7,113,1'Ki. \'ice- 
Pres. of U. S. Public announcement, Nov. 27. that 
Cleveland would make N. J. his home. These political 
conventions held at Trenton: Republican. April 10 and 
Aug. 27; Prohibition. May ti; Democratic. May 7; 
People's, May 30; National Silver. July «{, and Sound 
Money, Aug. 2(j. Comjiosition of Legislature — Senalu, 
Rep. 18. Dem. 3; Assembly. Rep. .')»!. Dem. 4. F.\- 
pended for Trentt)n battle monument $(!.»>oo — for polit- 
ical and legislative history of N. J.. $1. ')<>(►. Receipts of 
State Treasury. $38,000. and expenditures about $2iM).- 
000 less than ISOo. \'alue of property in State ior 
school and other i)urposes about 8.")(> million dollars 
About •")2 million dollars of individual deposits in Na- 
tional Banks of the State. Cost of the free schools of 
tlic State about five and one-third million dollars, or 
$14.40 per i)ui)il per year. About -14 million trout, shad. 
I)ike. etc.. planted in State waters up to Nov. '!Mi. 
Among the bills that became laws were — State Su- 
preme Court to consist of I'l or more nu-mbers — \Vo- 



ANNALS OF NEW JERSEY. 69 

man Sutirage at school elections outside cities. Teach- 
ers' retirement fund provided. Gift of 130 acres and 
buildings at Englishtown for Blind Asylum accepted. 
Non-residents to get license to hunt and fish in State — 
to make it a misdemeanor to solicit money or tempt 
candidates to buy ball and other tickets. Mining and 
manufacturing corporations required to pay employees 
their wages once in two weeks — also to make legislative 
sessions biennial in future. Death, Dec. 3, at Alt. Clair, 
of "the oldest daughter of the Revolution." Dec. 5. 
Telephone and Telegraph messages sent for first time 
through wires suspended by kites at Bayonne. Dec. 
18. A midget with 1^ inch foot and 13 inches tall, born 
at Camden. Dec. 23. Admiral Porter's granddaughter 
christens U. S. gunboat at Elizabeth. Newark s dyna- 
mos destroyed by fire Dec. 29 leave city in darkness. 

181J7. 
Jan. 11. U. S. Electoral College meets at Trenton, 
Jan. 12. Legislature meets. Jan. 20. Death of Dr. 
Durgee at Rutgers. Jan. 31. Seven lives lost in Sun- 
day fires at Hoboken. Feb. 14. Sugar Trust ol^cers 
incorporate American CofTee Co. Feb. 19. Death, at 
Trenton, of Chief Justice Mercer Beasley, age 89. Feb. 
24. Man suicides at Jersey City because his friend for 
25 years suicides. Redemption, near Jersey City, of 
27,000 acres of marsh land. Two N. Y. newspapers ex- 
cluded on moral grounds from Newark Library. 
March 4. G. A. Hobart takes the oath as Vice-Pres. 
Cuban Expedition sails from Barnegat. McKinley 
gives young Hobart an office the first dav of his term. 
April. A Camden man advertises to sell his body for 
lucre to some Medical College. Forest fires raging at 
Mt. Holly. Robeson, Cox, and Boutwell the only sur- 
vivors of Grant's cabinet. April 28. Death of Col. J. 
E. Peyton, "the Father of Centennials" — age 81. May 
7. Princeton wins the debate with Yale at New Haven. 
May 9. Ship Frances burned to water's edge o^ Little 
Egg Harbor. June 15 and IG. Commencements at 
Rutger's and Princeton Colleges. July. Death in Jer- 
sey City of a woman 101 years old. who waved her hand- 
kerchief to Napoleon as he marched through Prussia. 
Jewish National Chatauqua at Atlantic City. Aug. 



J) HISTORICAL HAND HOOK OT NHW JKRSKV. 

Rain uncovers an old Revolutionary copper mine at 
Plainfield. Man fined $2 for two oaths uttered at 
Bridgeton. A banker, actor and society leader fills 
pulpit of a New Jersey church. Edison employes 4(J<J 
men to try at West Portal to separate iron from (jre by 
magnetism. A N. J. firm competes for building cable 
road to crater of Popocatapetl to get its sulphur. Aug. 
1!>. A fillibuster loads off Long Branch and sails for 
Cuba. County jail escape, at Belvidere of three pri- 
soners. "Big Man's Burial". Aug. 2b, at South Orange 
— a well known hatter weighing over 3<>0 pounds. Col- 
ored camp meeting near Xew Brunswick broken up 
Aug. 21> by eggs and pistols aimed at the speaker by 
the audience. A 40 million dollar Glucose Company 
chartered for Chicago use under N. J. law. Sept. <>. 
The shaggy Unionville hermit — aged 70 — dies in his 
h(jme — where he preached — the top of a GO foot high 
hickory tree. Sept. 8. Painting of Theodore Runyon 
— ambassador to Germany — the gift of Harrison, the 
artist, hung in State House. A new insect, the locust 
killer. api)ears at Milford. A Chicago railway Co.. 
capital .>i;-J(H).(itin.(iOo. plans an electric elevated t<i run by 
daylight lOd miles an hour, from Jersey City to Chicago. 
Sept. Itl. Halberton. a deserted Jewish settlement, to 
be rebuilt. Lutheran Synod — aiding 100 missions — 
in session at Asbury. Sept. 21. Arrest at Cape May of 
Ex City Clerk of Evanston. 111., for embezzlement of 
$8,382 of city's funds. Ticket Scalper of Atlantic City 
sentenced. Sept. 2.'». to $100 fine and three months ini- 
I)ris(»nment. State Gazette, Sept. 27. attributes New 
Jersey's industrial prosperity to Dingley bill. Arrival. 
Sept. 27, at Cf)luml)us. O., of the Mayor and three 
"Council-women" of Lincoln, to attend Mayor's Con 
vcntion there. Death. Sept. 27. at Trenton, alter a 
year's illness, of Geo. M. Robeson. Grant's Secretary of 
the Navy. Special State election. Sept. 28. resulted in 
the adoption of two of tlie three amendments — anti- 
gambling, ad interim and suffrage — to the State Con- 
stitution. Oct. 4. Trenton Alumni i)lanning to make 
Grover a Judge and then a Senator. Rescue .it Ocean 
City of Captain .ind five men of the Harry May. after 
facing death for 21 hours. Destruction by fire, Oct <>, 
;it Perth Anilx.y. of acres of l>uildings and the largest 



ANNALS OF NEW JERSFA'. 71 

smelting works of the kind in the world. The largest 
sailing vessel afloat, the May Flint, an oil carrier, dis- 
abled by a West Indian hurricane, is sighted, Oct. 7, 
off the N. J. Highlands. Death at Jersey City^ Oct. 8, 
after five years' illness, of Ex U. S. Senator J. R. Mc- 
Pherson. One of the 38 submitted plans, selected by 
Newark for her $190,000 new Library building, to hold 
her now 200,000 books. Part interest in an ocean pier, 
800 feet long, sold at Atlantic City for $100,000. Greatest 
window glass combine ever known — capital $30,000,000 
— formed at Camden, Oct. 12. A tornado, cutting a 
swath 300 feet wide, wrecks property and life, between 
Summit and Elizabeth, Oct. 13, 1897. 

A TRUE STORY 

[ From Niles' Register of February, 1816. | 

On the plains of New Jersey, one hot summer day. 
Two Englishmen, snug in a coach, were vap'ring; 

A Yankee, who happened to travel that way 

Took a seat alongside, and sat wond'ring and gaping. 

Chock full of importance, like every true Briton, 

Who knows British stars far outshine our poor luna. 

These cockneys found nothing their optics to hit on. 
But what was insipid or miserably puny. 

Compared with the English, our horses were colts, 
Our oxen but goats, — and sheep but a lamb. 

And the people (poor blockheads) such pitiful dolts! 
Mere Hottentot children, contrasted with them. 

Just then a black cloud in the West was ascending, 
The lightning flashed frequent, with horrible glare, 

While near and more near, a fierce tempest portending, 
The thunder rebellowed along the rent air. 

An oak by the wayside, Jove's bolt made a dash on. 
With a peal that knocked horses and cockneys all flat; 

There, hang you! cries Jonathan, quite in a passion, 
Have you got better "Thunder" in England than that? 



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STATES ADMITTED. 



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STATES ADMITTED SINCE THE ORIGINAL 
THIRTEEN 



DATE OF ADMISSION. 



Vermont 

Kentuckj' 

Tennessee . . . . 

Ohio 

Louisiana 

Indiana 

Mississippi . . . 

Illinois 

Alabama 

Maine 

Missonri 

Arkansas . . . . 

Michigan 

Florida 

Texas 

Iowa 

Wisconsin 

California 

Minnesota . . . . 

Oregon 

Kansas 

West Virginia 

Nevada 

Nebraska 

Colorado . .. 
North Dakota 
South Dakota 

Montana 

Washington . . 

Idaho 

W3'oming 

Utah 



1791. 
1792, 
17^6, 

iso-j. 
isrj. 

1 81(1, 
1817, 
1818, 
1819, 
1820, 
1821, 
188(i, 
1887, 
1845, 
1845, 
1846. 
1848. 
1850, 
1858, 
1859, 
18(;i. 
1863. 
1864, 
1867, 
1876. 
1889, 
1889, 
1889, 
1889, 
1890, 
1N90. 
1896, 



March 4. 

June 1. 

June 1. 

November 29. 
April 30. 

December 11. 
December 10. 
December .>. 
December 14. 
March 15. 

August 10. 
June 15. 

January 26. 
March 3. 

December 29. 
December 28. 
May 29. 

September 9. 
May 11. 

Februarj' 14. 
January 29. 
June 19. 

October 31. 
March 1. 

August 1. 

November 2. 
.November 2. 
Noveni])er 8. 
November 11. 
Julv 3. 

July 11. 

January 4. 



ITEMIZED INFORMATION 

CONCERNING THE HISTORY. GEOGRAPHY. GEOLOGY, 

RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT 

OF THE STATE. 



] 

One of the original 13 States, New Jersey adopted, 
July 2, 177G, her "first" Constitution, which remained in 
force till June 29. 1844. Sept. 20, 1777, she substituted 
the word "Stale" for the word "Colony." 
■) 

What names had the province before it was called 
"New" Jersey, in honor of Sir George Carteret, who 
was Governor of Old Jersey? New Canary and Nova 
Caesaria. The latter name appears in the original grant 
from the king of England. 
3 
In what portion, or quarter, of the United States 
(omitting Alaska and Hawaii) is New Jersey? The N. 
E. one-fourth bemg one of the Middle Atlantic States, 
in a sort of ocean bay; midway between Massachusetts 
and North Carolina. 

4 
How long under the partial control of New 
Sweden? 11 years; 1642 to 1053. 
5 
How long under the Duke of York and his ap- 
pointees? 12 years; 1(1(14 to l»l7t). 

How long was "East" Jersey under the proprietary 
and royal governors? 25 years; 1G77 to 1702. 
7 
Hf>w long "West" Jersey? l»»7t) to 17<»2 — 2() year> 

How long were E. and W. Jrrsry, nnite«i. under 
English control, emanatmg from Slow S'ork? .{<• years: 
1702 to 1738. — Cornbury to Hamilton. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 75 

1 

How long under English control, independent of 
New York? 38 years; 1738 to 1776. 

2 

How long under committees of safety, councils of 
State and regular governors, while the Constitution of 
1776 was in force? 68 years, or from 1776 to 1844. 

3 

How many State Administrations under and since 
the Constitution of 1844? Eighteen: Govs. Stratton, 
Haines, Fort, Price, Newell, Olden, Parker, Ward, 
Randolph, Parker, Bedle, McClellan, Ludlow, Abbott, 
Green, Abbett, Werts and Griggs — or 16 different 
governors in about 50 years. 

4 
How long was what is now called New Jersey un- 
der the New Netherlands and its Dutch Governors? 
About 50 years, viz.: 1614 to 1646, and 1646 to 1664. 

5 
What is the general shape of N. J.? Kidney-shaped 
— but Franklin compared it to a bag, or barrel, com- 
pressed in the middle and distended towards the ends, 
which there discharged their treasure into New York 
and Philadelphia. It is also peninsular in form. 

6 
Which State, to the north, separates N. J. from 
Canada? New York. 

7 
What State and large Island and Sound to the 
Northeast? New York State, Long Island and Sound. 

8 
When was the boundary line between N. J. and N. 
Y. finally settled? June 28, 1834, by act of Congress, 
giving New York exclusive control over the waters of 
New York Bay, Bedlow and Ellis Islands — also of the 
waters of Kill von KuU, between Staten Island and N. 
J., while N. J. was given the ownership of land under 
the water, west of the middle of the Bay and Hudson 
River, between Manhattan Island and New Jersey. 



76 HISTOKICAI, HAND HOOK OF NKW JKKSKV. 

1 

W'liai is tlic E. boundary of X. J.? The Atlantic 

Ocean. 

•) 

What ocean and bay in the South? Atlantic Ocean 
and Delaware Bav. 

What State and bay S. W.? Delaware. 

[ 
What State X. W. and W.? Pennsylvania. 

5 
Which river forms part of the X. E. boundary? 
Tlu- Hudson, for 'A't miles. 
6 
Which the Western? The Delaware, which is navi- 
gable for ships IMj miles, and for other craft 120 miles. 

7 
Which states between X. J. and Lakes Erie and 
Ontario? Pennsylvania and Xew York. 

8 
What is the length of the State? I<i7 miles, and the 
\^dth about 40 to 0(», or average 40. 
«) 
Between what degrees of Lat. and Long, is the 
State? Lat. 38 \ V;'. 

41^ 21' X. 2.^ degrees Lat. 
Long. 7.T. 54'. 

~'t\ :V.V W. ^^ 1 2-''\ degrees of Long. 
](» 
I low many geographical miles in a degree of longi- 
tude in the latitude of X. J.? 4''> to 47 miles, a degree 
of longitude measuring 00 miles at the e(iuator and zero, 
or nothing, at the poles. 

11 
What is the area of the State? S.;L'0 s<piare miles, 
or 5.324.HM> acres. 

12 
Mow many airts to I'aih inhabitant in 1880. the 
population then being l.l.'U.llO? 4.<»7 acres. In 1890. 
the population l)eing 1,444,93.3? 3.o7 acres. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. /7 

i 

How many inhabitants to the square mile in 1880? 
136. In 1890? 173. 

2 

Which states have less area than N. J.? Massa- 
chusetts 7,800, Connecticut 4,750, Delaware 2,120 and 
Rhode Island 1,306 square miles. 
3 
Which State has next more of area than N. j.? 
New Hampshire, 9,280 square miles. 
4 
What republic in Europe has less area than N. j.? 
Montenegro. 

5 
How much more area has N. J. than Connecticut, 
Delaware and Rhode Island combined? 144 square 
miles. 

6 
What is the extent and value of the State's riparian 
rights along the Hudson River, Bay of New York, etc.? 
About 4,500,000 lineal feet, worth 20 cents to over $50 
a foot. 

7 
When were the boundary lines and monuments re- 
marked and reset between N. J. and N. Y.? In 1884. 
8 
Which of the New England states have more area 
than N. J.? Vermont 10,212, New Hampshire !),280. 
Maine 35,000 square miles. 
9 
How many times larger is N. J. than Delaware? 
Nearly four times. Than Rhode Island? Nearly six 
times. 

10 
What country in Europe is one-fifth the size of 
N. J.? Montenegro. 

11 
Compare N. J. with Switzerland. N. J. is half the 
size of that country. 

12 
What separates Staten Island from N. J.? Arthur- 
kill Sound and Raritan Bay. 



«.H HISTOklLAI. HAND HOOK Ol- NKW JKKSEV. 

1 

What is the water surface, or area, of N. J.? Coast 
waters, guh's and bays, 205 square miles; rivers and 
streams. 1*2" square miles; Lakes and ponds, ,35 sc^uare 
miles. Total area, 3(JiJ square miles. 

2 

How many rivers, large and small, has N. J.? 26, 
the chief ones being Passaic and Hackensack. Empty- 
ing X. E. into Newark Bay — Maurice. S. W. into the 
Delaware — Raritan into Raritan Bay and Great Egg 
Harbor river into the Atlantic. These are navigable 
from 10 to 20 miles each. 

3 

How many lakes has X. J.? Ten; Long. Morris, 
Green, tireenwood, Budds, Calvers, Hopatcong. Sucker, 
Swartouts and Wanaganda. 

4 

What of the lake in Warren Co. on the summit of 
the mountain? It is a deep lake, two miles in circuit, 
full of hsh. and about 1400 feet above sea level. 

5 
What islands belong to X. J.? Clam and Long 
lUach. to say nothing of the many sandy, broken ones, 
made- by tlu- lagoons along the coast. 

6 

llow many (.ounties arc tluTf in X. J.? 21 Name 
SOI1U-. iir :il] of tluMU. 

Which County is the largest in area? BurlinKloii. 
with J^0(» s(|uare miles. Whicli the smallest? Huds»)n. 
with 4<i S(|uarc luiles. 

?< 
Which County had the most population in ISSO? 
Essex. 1M!M»21>. Which was next in population? Hud 
son. 187. ;M4. Xext? Passaic, with (iH.8()0. Which had 
1».7<M. the least? 

<» 

Which C"ounly had most population in ISiMl? llu»l 
son. with 275. 12(1, and ICssex. with 25«;.(»!IS next. Which 
lea.st? Cape May. 11.2«JH. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 79 

1 

Which counties had between 28,000 and 29,000 in 
1890? Atlantic, Gloucester and Somerset. 

2 

Which counties had the most farms in 1880? Hun- 
terdon, Alonmouth and jMorris. 

3 
Which counties had the most value in farms in 
1880? Burlington, Monmouth and Hunterdon. 

4 
What percentage of the acreage of N. J. farms was 
unimproved in 1850-90? 1850 — 35.8 per cent; 1860, 
34.9; 1870, 33.9; 1880, 28.4; 1890, 24.9 per cent. Aver- 
age for each decade, 31.6 per cent. 

5 
Which counties in New Jersey are opposite New 
York? Sussex, Passaic, Bergen, Middlesex, Hudson, 
Monmouth, Union. 

6 
Which counties in New York face New Jersey? 
Orange, Rockmond, Brooklyn, Richland, Westchester, 
New York and Kings. 

7 
Which in N. J. are opposite Pennsylvania? Sussex, 
Warren, Hunterdon. IMercer, Burlington, Camden, 
Gloucester and Salem. 

8 
Which counties in Pennsylvania are opposite N. J.? 
Pike, ^Monroe, Northampton, Bucks, Philadelphia and 
Delaware. 

9 
Which counties in N. J. face Delaware and Dela- 
ware Bay? Salem, Cumberland and Cape May. 

10 
Which counties of the State are on the Aalantic 
Coast? Monmouth, Ocean, Burlington, Atlantic and 
Cape Mav. 

11 
Which states are between N. J. and Maine? New 
York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. 



80 HISTORICAL HANIJ BOOK Ol- NEW JERSEY. 

1 

W'liich between X. J. and Florida? Delaware, 
Maryland. Virginia, North and South Carolina, and 
Georgia. 

2 

Which states between X. J. and the Mississippi 
River? Pennsylvania. Ohio. Indiana and Illinois. 
3 

What countries in Europe and Asia are in the same 
latitude as X. J.? Spain. Italy. Turkey. Turkestan and 
China, and portions ot the Mediterranean. Black and 
Caspian Seas. 

4 

\\ iiat is the shortest distance by "inai)"' I'roni X. J. 
to Lake Ontario? 170 miles. To Lake Erie? 230 
miles. To Maine? 200 miles. To Florida? Too miles. 
To Canada? 220 miles. To Illinois? <)3o miles. To 
Louisiana? l.ooo miles. To Texas? l.lou niiles. To 
California? l.Soo miles. To Asia? 5.741 miles. To 
Cuba? f<oo miles. To Europe? 2.!»44 miles. 
o 

What separates X. J. from Michigan? Pennsyl- 
vania and Lake Erie and parts of Xew York. Ohio ami 
Canada. 

G 

What might Long island be compared to? A sea 
fish or monster with his "severed" head (Staten Island) 
imbedded in the side of Xew Jersey — a penalty for his 
headlong attack. 

What are the salt water na\igal)lc' channels called? 
"Thoroughfares." 

S 

Xame some of the rivers in and along the State. 
Hudson. Delaware. Wallkill. Hackensack. Passaic, i^ar- 
itan, Xeversink. Shark. Manssaijuam. .Mitedeconk. 
Toms, (ireat and Little Egg Harbor. Maurice. Ranco- 
cas. Millstone. Cohansey. Musemetong. Paulniskill. 
9 

W'liich is the largest river in the Southern part of 
the State? .Maurice, which is navigable for lo t() \!>^ 
miles. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 81 

1 

How about the tributaries of the Delaware? They 
are 10 to 40 miles long, but none navigable above 
Trenton. 

2 

How is the river system divided? Part drain west 
to Delaware River and Bay, and part east to the 
Atlantic. 

3 

How are the Coast bays and sounds formed? By 
strips of sand which fence in part of the ocean. Breaks 
in the line form Egg. Barnegat, Cold Spring and other 
harbors. 

4 

What State separates New Jersey from Canada? 
New York to the north and northwest. 

5 

How extensive is the State coast line? 120 miles, 
not including Raritan. Delaware and other bays and 
creeks. From Sandy Hook to Cape ]\Iay is a narrow, 
sandy beach, with inlets, separate from the main land, 
constituting an interior water route, or river. 
G 

What is noticeable along Delaware Bay? A tide- 
water meadow from 1 to 10 miles wide with no harbor. 

7 
Has N. J. much marine business? A large coasting 
but small foreign trade. 

8 
What ports of entry has she? Newark. Perth Am- 
boy. Great Egg Harbor, Tuckerton, Bridgeton and 
Lamberton. 

9 
What canals has N. J.? The Morris. 101 miles 
long, from Jersey City to Phillipsburg — the Delaware 
and Raritan. 43 miles, from Trenton to New Brunswick, 
enabling steamboats to pass from New York City to 
Philadelphia — and some others. 

10 
Where is most of the commerce of N. J. transacted? 
At Jersey City, Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Trenton, 



K2 HISTORICAL HANI) KOOK OF NKW JKRSKV. 

Burlinpton and Camden. Immense amounts of freight 

for railroads and steamers arc handled at Jersey City in 

aid of the commerce of New York. 

1 

What is the cHmate of Xew Jersey? Much cooler 

on the heights in the North thon near the ocean and 

lowlands. 

•> 

What is the average temperature of the two sections 
named? Northern part 48° to 50° — Southern .>T t<» 

3 
What the rainfall of the State? About 44 inchc 
Dcr annum. 

4 
What of the soil? Varied m quality or richne^ 
and productions. 

o 
What soil-culture receives special attention in North 
N. J.? Grain, grass and pasture. 

G 

What in Middle N. J.? Abundant market product ^ 
and fruit from a soil artificially enriched. 
I 
What in Southern N. J.? Grapes and other small 
fruits from a pine-land region, with thin soil, for thf 
markets of New \'()rk and Philatlelphia. 
,s 
IIow has the Delaware shore from Trenton {• 
Salem been described? As a continuous garilen. X. j 
is tile "market-garden" State. 
!) 
What market and other products? Apples. pear<. 
peaches, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, swc i 
potatoes — in large quantities — three million l)usliel 
cranberries in 1S80 — live stock, milk, butter. woi>l. 
hops, tobacco. gr.T^s and fb^wer seeds, melons, clier 
ries. etr 

III 

Wli.it .11 till- iiiiiikt: In the .\cirth. «\-ik. hickory — 
in the South, pine, stunted oaks and swamp ceilar. 



THINGS NHW AND OLD. 83 

1 

What of the face of the country? In the N. W. are 
the Bkie and Shawango mountains, 1,400 to 1,800 feet 
high, and the Highland ranges. 1.000 to 1,450 feet, be- 
tween which is the rich Kittaning valley, 10 miles wide 
■ — besides the 1st and 'ind mountains and Rocky Hill, 
300 to 600 feet high. 

2 

What of S. E. New Jersey? A wide plateau, broken 
by a palisade, an extension of the palisades of the 
Hudson. 

3 

How is the country S. E. of a line drawn from Tren- 
ton to Raritan? Level, for the remaining three-fifths of 
the State — the Highland and Neversink Hills being 
the only elevations. 

4 

What is the character of S. E. New Jersey? A 
sandy, pine-covered region, low and rolling. 

5 
Name some of the principal peaks of the Apalla- 
chian Chain. Ramapa, Trowbridge, Wenaygando, 
Hamberg. Scott. Jemmy Jump. 

6 
What elevation have the Neversink Highlands? 
375 feet. 

7 
What of the Wehaw^ken Heights? They are near 
Hoboken and part of the palisades — from whose sum- 
mit not only Harlem and New York City, but Staten 
Island and some of the ocean can be seen. 

8 

What rocks and minerals are found in the State? 
Building flag-limestone in the N. W. — red sandstone 
and roofing slate — bog iron ore, zinc and copper — 
glass sand and the fire-clay used for Bessemer furnaces 
— beds of rich marl, extending from N. E. to S. W., 
and peat beds in various places. 
9 

Geologically speaking, what is the general course 
of the "Rocks"? N. E. to S. W. 



84 HISTORICAL HANI) BOOK Ol" NKW JKRSEV. 

1 

Where is iron ore found? In Sussex. Passaic and 
Warren counties and also Wahlkill and other valleys. 
2 

Where are some of the iron furnaces? At Ring- 
wood, Boonton. Stanhope, Oxford, Phillipsburg, but 
most of the ore has gone to Philadelphia. 

How much iron was produced in 1880? 7.j7,."57_' 
tons, N. J. ranking fourth in the U. S., producing ninr 
per cent, of the whole product. The price of iron came 
down in ten years, 1870-1880. 15 to 35 per cent. 
4 
What was the total value of all the mineral product- 
of N. J. in 1889? $8,275,II3G, and in 188!t X. J. produced 
415,510 long tons of iron ore. 
5 
Where is blue limestone found and lime extensively 
made? In the Kittaning. German and Wahlkill valleys. 
H 
Where sandstone? In Bearfoot, Greenpond and 
Coperas mountains. 

7 
Where roofing slate? At Newton and the Dela- 
ware Water Gap. 

8 
How wide is the red shale and sandstone tield? 
Thirty miles, in Bergen, Passaic and other counties 
along the Delaware river. 

Any coal in X. J.? Xone. or too far below the sea 
level for profit. 

10 
Where is potter's clay foimd? Xear .Ainboy. 
Woodbridgc and Trenton. 
11 
Where glass sand? ( )n Maurice river at Winslow. 
Waterford. (^lassboro and Jackson. Salem. Camden and 
Atlantic counties. Glass f.ictorv at I'^rcisburv in 1718. 
IJ 
Where ;ire some of the oldest and richest zinc mine'^ 
in the l'. S? In .Su>se.\ Co. 



THINGS NEW AND OI^D. 85 

1 

Where- is bog iron found? Under the numerous 
beds of peat. Total iron ore product of 1880, G7G,225 
tons; and 1889. 415,510 tons (long( for the State. 
2 

What are the leading water industries of the State? 
Ship building, deep sea fishing, oyster catching, shad, 
black bass, etc., from rivers, menhodden for "sardines", 
oil and guano, blue fish, Spanish mackerel, etc. 
3 

What were the prominent manufacturing industries 
in 1880? "Iron and steel," capital invested, nine mil- 
lion, product, ten million dollars. "Foundry and ma- 
chine shops", capital, seven, product, eleven million dol- 
lars. "Silk and silk goods", capital, seven and product 
seventeen million dollars. "Sugar", capital two and 
product tvv-enty-three million dollars. "Meat packing", 
capital two and product twenty-one million dollars. 

4 

Which counties took the lead in 1850 in population? 
Essex. Burlington and Monmouth. In dwellings? 
Essex. Burlington, and Hunterdon. In farms? Hun- 
ter, Monmouth, and Morris. In manufactures? Essex, 
Burlington, and Monmouth. 
5 

What other State items in the census of 1850? 23,- 
905 farms, valued at 120 million dollars; 81,064 dwell- 
ings, containing 89,080 families. 
6 

What were the exports from N. J. prior to 1860? 
1791,126,988; 1800, $2,289; 1810, $430,000; 1820, $20,511; 
1840, $16,076; 1850, $1,655. 
7 

What places of peculiar interest and wonder in N. 
J.? The "Delaware Water Gap" through the Blueridge 
— where the Delaware contracts, passing for two miles 
through a gorge between walls 1200 to 1600 feet high. 
"Passaic Falls", 50 to 72 feet high at Paterson. The 
Mineral Springs on the summit of Schooley's Moun- 
tain. Add to these thor^^ celebrated sea-side resorts, 
Cape May, Long Branch Atlantic Citv. Barnegat, etc. 



86 HISTORICAL HAND HOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

How was the State population of 1880 (l.l;U.ll«)) 
divided as to sex and nativity? Male, o59.922; female, 
571,194; natives, 909,416; foreign. 221,700; colored, 38,- 
853; Chinese, 170; Indians, 74. The deaths averaged 
about 18,000 a year — 9,524 male and 8,950 female. 
2 

How was the population of 1880 divided as to me- 
chanical trades? Tailors and seamstresses, 14,843; car- 
penters and joiners, 12.354; workers in cotton, silk and 
wool, 18,940. How in professional or clerical work? 
Teachers, 4,606; clergymen, 1,654; physicians and sur- 
geons, 1,595; clerks and salesmen, 16,075; railroad and 
express company employes, 8,000. 
3 

What rank in population had N. J. in 1880? The 
19th. New York being first. Pennsylvania second, Ohio 
third. Illinois fourth. Missouri fifth, and so on. 
4 

What rank in 18!M)? The 17th state. N. V. being 
first, Pennsylvania second. Illinois third. Ohio fourth. 
Missouri fifth. Massachusetts sixth. Texas seventh, In- 
diana eighth, and so on. 

5 

What places in N. J. had 4.000 or more inhabitants 
in 1880? Atlaintic. Bayonne. Bordentown. Bridgeton. 
Burlington, Camden. Chambersburg. Elizabeth. Glou- 
cester, Hackensack. Harrison, Hoboken. Jersey City, 
Lambertville, Millville, Morristown. Newark. New 
Brunswick. Orange. Passaic. Paterson. Perth .\mboy, 
Phillipsburg. Plainfield, Rahway, Salem, Trenton, 
Union. \\'hat place has been adtled to the list by the 
census of 1890? \'inoland. 
C) 

How have the three leading cities of X. J. ranked 
since 1869? Newark, 1S7(». I(»5.n59; 1S80. 13(;.5<t8; 1890, 
181,513. Jersey Citv. 1870. 82.54«i: 18So. 12<».722; 1890. 
163.987. Paterson. ' 1870. ;W.589; 188u. 51.031; 1890, 
78,358. 

7 

How niui'h more i)»>i)ulati<)n had X. j. in ISSn than 
Kansas? 13:..ol7. Tli;m South Car..iina? 135..3()1. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 87 

Than California? 266,297. Than Connecticut? 508,- 
300. Than Maine? 482,038. Than Maryland? 196,- 
351. Than Vermont? 798,697. Than Minnesota? 
350,177. 

1 

How many states had less population in 1880 than 
N. J.? 19 states and 11 territories. How many in 1890? 
27 states and 9 territories. 
2 

How many times was the population of New Hamp- 
shire contained in 1880 in that of N. J.? Three times. 
Rhode Island? Four times. Oregon? Six times. 
Delaware? Seven times. Nevada? Nearly twenty 
times. 

3 

How much more population had N. J. in 1880 than 
all the then territories put together? 347,712, which 
remainder exceeded the population of New Hampshire 
(346,984) for that year. 

4 

What was the average value of land in N. J. in 1880? 
Cleared, $82; timber, $56 an acre. 

5 

What part of the population of N. J. in 1880 was 
born in the U. S.? 870,697. In N. J.? 697,945. In 
New York? 93,341. In Pennsylvania? 44,736. In 
Canada? 2,776. In Germany? 64,935. In Great 
Britain and Ireland? 132,882. Total born in foreign 
countries, 221,700. 

6 

What extremes were noted by the census ot 1880 
in the ages of New Jersey's people? Over 80 years, 5,- 
438 persons — under one year, 28,192 little ones. 

7 
What valuation was given to the school property 
in the State in 1880? $6,500,000. 

8 
What was the public school attendance in 1880? 
About 50,000 in private and 205,240 in 3241 public 
schools, whose teachers numbered 3,300. Children of 
school age, 350,000. 



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88 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY, 

1 I 

How near did New Jersey once come to having the I 
District of Cokmibia located within her borders? In 
1787 the Convention which framed the United States 
Constitution "Resolved, it is the opinion of this Con- 
vention that the State of New Jersey 'should' ofYer a 
cession to Congress of a district not exceeding ten 
miles square, for the seat of government of the United 
States over which they may exercise exclusive juris- 
diction." (Minutes of Convention.) 
2 

Which of the Presidents of the United States was 
born in Xew Jersey? Grover Cleveland, born at Cald- 
well. -March 18. 1^j7. 

3 

How different was the Indian policy of New Jersey 
and Pennsylvania from that described by Hennepin in 
1080 when speaking of the obstacles to Indian con- 
version? The opposite, for. says Hennepin: "The 
Western traders think of nothing but cheating and 
lying to become rich in a short time. They use all 
manner of stratcgcms to get the furs of the savages 
cheap. They make use of lies and cheats to gain doul)le 
if they can. This without doubt causes an aversion 
against a religion which they see accompanied by the 
professors of it, with so many artifices and cheats." 

4 
How nearly synchronous were the Declaration of 
Independence ami the adopti(jn of the State name? 
Within two days — the latter being July 2 and the former 
July 4. 177(). When the New Jersey Constitution was 
adopted it was resolved: "That this house from hence- 
forth instead of the style and title of the 'Provincial 
Congress of New Jersey' do adopt and assume the style 
and title of the 'Convention of the State of New Jer- 
sey.' " This constituted New Jersey's Declaration of 
Independence of Great Britain. 

What was the cost in \'t9'2 of the State House site 
in Trenton? .Xbout £250 for 33 acres, 23 acres of which 
cost .') shillings. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 89 

1 

What were some of the Geological Exhibits of the 
State at the Centennial? Four hundred and twenty-six 
specimens, including sixty-eight of choice minerals, 
thirty-eight of building, roofing, flag and lime stone, 
twenty zmc ore, six copper, twenty-six potters' clay 
and glass sand, twenty-two iron and zinc, twenty of fire 
brick pottery, glass, etc. All the products of the State. 
2 

Whose mail system was adopted by the English 
Government in 1()94? That of Colonel John Hamilton, 
of New Jersey. 

3 

How many turnpike companies started up after 
the Morris Turnpike Company began its turnpike via 
Morristown, from Elizabeth to the Delaware? Fifty- 
four. That was in 18Ul, when turnpike legislation com- 
menced. 

4 

How long after the first railroad charter in America 
was granted (that in 1815 to John Stevens, of New 
Jersey, for a wood and iron road from Trenton to New 
Brunswick) before the first train passed over the Cam- 
den and Amboy Railroad its entire length? Eighteen 
years, or three years after the latter's incorporation. 

5 
What are the dates of completion of other early 
lines? 183(5, New Brunswick to Jersey City; 1851, to 
Lambertville; 1852, Central of New Jersey; 1853, 
Morris and Essex; 1854, to Easton; 1856. to Belvedere; 
1854. Camden and Atlantic; 1857, to Woodbury; 1801, 
to Bridgeton; 18(31, Milville and Glassboro; 1864, The 
Northern New Jersey. Now (1896) there are about 
2,200 miles of railroad in the State. 



Where did the pioneer land companies or syndi- 
cates of New Jersey locate their tracts? The Yorkshire 
(first-tenth), Rancocas Creek to Delaware Falls, and 
the "London" (second tenth), on the Delaware near 
Timber and Arwamas Creek. Beverly, Bridington or 
Burlington was their joint settlement. 



90 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

When were the people of Xew Jersey restricted as 
to the amount of certain coin or money they should re- 
ceive? In 1(>82, when only five shillings in "Patrick's 
half-pence" should be fcjrced on a man at one time. 

Which were the "ports of entry" over 212 years 
ago? Burlington and Salem. 

3 

W'luit inland was set apart for the support of schools 
in lti"^;i? Malenicunk, with its rents and profits. 

4 
Where was the "Irish Tenth," or tract, set apart 
for emigrants from Ireland two hundred years ago? 
The tract extending from Pesaukin to Timber Creek. 

Who is called the father of the school fund? James 
Parker, second President of State Historical Society 
and active promoter of canals and railroads in Xew 
Jersey; died 18G3, aged l>2 years. 

(j 
How long was the weekly mail in summer and 
semi-monthly in winter via New Jersey in vogue be- 
tween Xew York and Philadelphia, continued? From 
172!> to 1754. In 17(14 the mail was tri-weekly and the 
trips made in twenty-four hours. 

I 

How much per annum was reipiired to keep the 
first common road in Xew Jersey in order? .•\bt)Ut .*-'»0. 
It was more like an Indian trail or bridle path than a 
modern i)ike or Mc.Vdam road. 
8 

What were some of the fruits of the old Speed- 
well iron works of Morristown. Xew Jersey? They 
made the shaft of the first steamer, the "Savannah." 
that ever crossed the .Atlantic, also the tires, etc.. of the 
first .American locominivc and telegraph apparatus used 
by Morse to get his :^30.UOO appropriation from Con- 
gress, were made tliere. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 91 

1 

When did the Legislature first begin to make an- 
nual appropriations for the support of common 
schools? In 1829, the sum of $2,000 being divided on a 
tax basis among the counties and then among the town- 
ships. 

2 

What carried "the Express" between New York 
and Philadelphia prior to 1707? Farm produce and 
merchandise. Later there were three "stage wagon" 
routes in New Jersey, the Bordentown, Burlington and 
New Brunswick. 

3 

What may have given a tinge of blue to eastern 
New Jersey? Its early settlement by blue bellied 
Yankees with blue laws from Connecticut, etc.. but as 
a whole its ancient population was English, with the 
exception of its Scotch Presbyterians. 

4. 
Whence have many fine Jersey cattle been distrib- 
uted throughout the United States? Darlington, in 
Ramapo Valley. Bergen County. 

5 
When did a citizen of New Jersey inform the Gov- 
ernor of Ohio exactly what the weather for a given 
month in that State would be? In 1894 and 1895. 

6 
What did the sixty-one Paterson lots which in 
1836 sold for $42,000. bring in 1842? Three thousand 
dollars at the hands of the same New York auctioneer, 
Blocker. 

7 
Which Governor of Iowa, very successful in man- 
aging Indians, was born in New Jersey in 1779? John 
Chambers, who died in Kentucky in 1852. 

8 
Where was the first japanned leather, made in this 
country, produced? At Newark, whose first tannery 
was started in 1698. Jonathan Edwards' grandson (one 
Ogden) was patron in those days of the leather in- 
dustry and a great inventor in that line. 



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92 HISTORICAT. HAND BOOK OF NKW JERSKY. 

1 

How early was a canal connecting the Delaware 
and Raritan agitated? In 1804 — 1810— 1832. and a com- 
pany chartered in IKJU and in February. 18."31, consoli- 
dated with the Camden and Amboy Railroad. 
■) 

tlow early could canal boats carrying twenty-five 
tons go from Newark to Phillipsburg? 1831, six years 
after the M. & E. Canal was begun. 

3 
Where were cannon, shot and shell cast for the 
American army during the Revolutionary war? At 
Batst(i furnace, erected in 17(10. in Burlington County. 
Boilers for the Coast Salt Works were also made there. 
The Malilon Dickerson furnace and mine, "the Old 
Forges," at Randolph, was public property till 171(5. 

4 

How early was green sand marl used as a fertilizer? 
In 17iiS. in Monmouth C(nmty. A laborer, ditching, 
spread some marl (near Marlboro) on a field and the 
growth of the crops was marvelous to behold. 
5 

How many saw mills had New Jersey in 17!)8? 
About ."■)<>(». the first erected being at Woodbridge and 
Salem, in ICts^J. Egg Harbor, in 17<»4. and remi)erton, 
in 1758. had both saw and grist mills. Woodbridge 
boasts of the first saw and corn mills in the State. 

(i 
What work was assigned to the First I>rigade 
which crossed Long Bridge into \'irginia May *24. 18(il? 
To construct on the Potoiuac Heights Fort Runyon, 
naiued after its Newark commaptU-r. 

7 
Which are the oldest furnaces in New Jersey? 
The Troy Bloomery. Morris County, and the Oxford, 
of 17 n. in Warren County, the latter still running, 
made its first iron March !•. 1713. Mining was in 
progress at Clinton. Mercer County, prior to 17J<>. Su- 
perior b.T iron and steel were made in Sussex County 
before the Revolution. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 93 

1 

What bid was made for mechanics and artisans in 
the early days? Newark set apart lots for the first 
emigrants of every trade who came to settle. Eliza- 
bethtown made her first shoemaker in 1676 "a member 
of the community on condition of his supplying it with 
shoes." 

2 

How many colleges have been founded under 
Princeton auspices? About twenty, and in 1890 Prince- 
ton could say that she had furnished one President, 
two Vice Presidents, one Chief Justice, four Associate 
Justices, five Attorney Generals or twenty Cabinet Of- 
ficers, twenty-eight State Governors, one hundred and 
thirty-six Judges, one hundred and seventy-one United 
States Senators and Congressmen, one hundred and 
seventy-five Professors and forty-three College Presi- 
dents. 

3 

Where did Congress have its sheet-iron for army 
camp kettles made in May, 1775? At ]\Iount f lolly, 
five tons being required. 

-4 

Why was New Jersey in 1694 prohibited from ship- 
ping her timber to any other country than Great 
Britain? Because the latter wanted to monopolize 
ship building, which the colony begun in 1683 — Bur- 
lington and Salem having ship-yards. Amboy gave one 
of her town lots as a prize to the man who built the 
first sloop there. 

5 

What early grist mill patent was granted in 1791? 
To one Macorab, for horizontal wheels. A water 
wheel at Trenton, in 1680. 

6 
Which were the first organized bodies of troops 
ready for service in response to the President's call 
of April 15, 18»)1? The Camden Zouaves and First 
Regiment of Hunterdon Brigade, which reported April 
18. but the Olden Guards, of Trenton, mustered in 
April 23, were the first New Jersey troops enrolled in 
the United States army. 



94 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. , 

1 

What toll, besides grants of land, did the town 
(Woodbridge) allow the builder who agreed to furnish 
"two good stones five feet in diameter," to take? One- 
sixteenth. 

What Xc'w Jersey women subscribed sl.doo each 
April jli). 18(jl, for the defense of the State and nation? 
Esther and Sophia Stevens. The banks placed $451,- 
<»<M) at the Governor's disposal: Newark voted ^lo,').- 
(»00 and the Legislature $2,000,000. which, added to 
$1,000,00') in private subscriptions, made over .$3.5<)o,. 
• MM) pledged within a month after the Fort Sumter in- 
sult to flag and nation. 

3 

When were semi-annual fairs lasting three days — 
in May and (October — authorized for Amboy? In 
1«j80, the year of the first monthly meeting at Amboy 
and the first yearly meeting at Salem of Friends. 

4 
How early did Quakers advise against importation 
of slaves by themselves? In l(>0(j. Charity and re- 
form began at home. 

5 
Where was the first artificial dam in New Jersey? 
On Alloway's Creek, in 1<!07 — the year emigrants from 
Connecticut started a Presbyterian Church at Fairfield. 

() 
When was paper monev first issued in New lorscv? 
In ITnO. 

I 
How early was it deemed economy or piety to use 
the Hoor of a church for the flooring of a scliool house? 
In 171 1, at Newark. 

Wlu-n was freestone first (|uarried in New Jersey? 
In 17J1. about 175 years ago, at Newark. 
9 

Who became Governor of New Jersey when in 
17:)8 (l.')7 years ago) it was separated from New York? 
Lewis Morris. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. . 95 

1 

Who built the first house at Deckertown, Sussex 
County? Peter Decker, m 1734. 
2 

How many of the 47,402 inhabitants of New Jersey 
were slaves in 1737, when East Jersey had 26,439 and 
West Jersey 20,903 population? 3,981. 

3 
When were Salem and Cohansey laid out — sub- 
divided into lots? September 18. 1678. Salem settled 
June, 1675. 

4 
Where were the first water-wheel mills in West 
Jersey erected? At Trenton and on Rancocas Creek. 

5 
When were women's business meetings first in 
vogue in Burlington? In 1681 — 214 years ago. 

6 
When did Salem become a port of entry? In 1682 — 
the year the first saw mills were built there and at 
Woodbridge. Amboy a free port in 1679. 

7 
When was the first tavern (ordinary) authorized? 
In 1683, at Woodbridge, the year Perth Amboy was 
"cut up" into 150 lots. 

8 
How long did the first church established at Eliza- 
bethtown in 1665 stand before it was burned? One 
hundred and fifteen years — it was built by Congrega- 
tionalists and Independents and enlarged in 1760. 

9 
How long and how early were Burlington and 
Philadelphia alternate competitors for the yearly meet- 
ings of Friends? From 1684 to 1761—77 years. 

10 
What population had leading towns in 1683? Ber- 
gen 350, Shrewsburv and Piscatawny 100 each. ^Tiddle- 
town and Newark 500 each, Woodbridge 600 and Eliza- 
bethtown 700. 



96 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

When was the first public house. "Long Ferry 
Tavern." built at Aniboy? In 1(J84. when a ferry be- 
tween Newark and Amboy was estalished. 
2 

When will it be 30U years since Henry Hudson 
anchored his "Half Moon" off Sandy Hook, after hav- 
ing entered Delaware Bay? September 3, 1909. 

3 
Whence did the thirty families who started Newark, 
in IGiiG, come? From Braniord. Connecticut, led b\ 
^iinister Pierson; Middletown and Piscatawny settled 
same year, and Woodbridge laid out the next year, 
when the Indian title to Newark was extinguished. 

4 
When did Newark first lecj justified in engaging 
a schoolmaster? February 7. ItiTil; but now she thmks 
nothing of employing them by the score at a time. 

•J 
Where and when was the pioneer Sunday school of 
New Jersey started? At Paterson. in 1794. a century 
ago, among the children of a calico factory. 

(i 
When were counties first authorized to build poor- 
houses? In 171)8. the year interstate commerce in slaves 
was prohibited by law. In lSo4 the enslavement of 
"infants" was forbidden by an act for gradual abolition. 
Quakers were the .\bolitionists of lOo years ago. 

When did the great mathematician, David Ritten- 
house. make the first survey for a Delaware and Hud- 
son Canal? In 1770. the year George III. chartered 
Queen's (Rutgcr's) College at New l)ruiiswick. 

S 
When were the people of New Jersey divided on 
moral (luestions? In 1748-9. when horse racing "for 
lucre of gain" was declared a public nuisance (v. 189.3-4). 
and a lottery for the benefit of Princeton College au- 
thorized. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 97 

1 

How long ago was Salem, the first English colony 
in West jersey, settled? In June, 1G75, about 22U years 
ago. 

2 

When did women first vote in New Jersey? In 
1800, at the municipal election in Elizabeihtown. In 
1802- the Hunterdon women voted for members of the 
Legislature. 

3 

When was 270 acres set apart for the site of Ho- 
boken? May 12, 1668. 

4 

How early did the Friends hold a Monthly Aleeting 
in New Jersey? In 1670, at Shrewsbury, the year a 
grist mill and a Presbyterian Society were started at 
Woodbridge. 

5 

What position strengthened the Quakers on the 
slavery question? That reforms should begin at home 
— so slavery was first abolished among themselves, be- 
fore they asked others to do so. 

6 
How late did Parliament place restrictions on the 
trade between Eastern and Western New Jersey? 1775. 
7 
When had Sussex County but one grist mill? In 
1738, on the Flatbrook. 

8 
How many from New Jersey had been placed on 
the United States pension list up to November 16, 
1818? 249 at $8.00 and 32 at $20.00 a month. 
9 
How long did it take the new stage line — started 
November, 1756 — to make the distance between New 
York and Philadelphia via Trenton and Perth Amboy? 
Three days, now three hours, and one hour predicted. 

10 
When had New Jersey a Privateer of her own? 
In 1780, the "Governor Livingston," built at Borden- 
town. 



98 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

What portion of the total population, 61,383, in 
174u. were slaves? 4. GOG. West Jersey had about 2.5U'> 
more inhabitants than East Jersey. Quakers: East 
Jersey 3.557, West Jersey G,U79. 
•_) 

When did James Parker establish the first print- 
ing press in New Jersey at Woodbridge? In 1751 and 
1752 it struck off a iolio edition of the Provincial 
Laws. 

3 

When did the defense of the New Jersey frontier 
against tiie Indians require barracks at Amboy, Tren- 
ton, ljurlington, Elizabeth and New Brunswick? In 
1757. In 1 ("55, 4(M» Sussex County militia drove ilu- 
Indians from Easton. 

4 

What newspaper item of December 12. 1818, shows 
the status of slavery at the time? "Certain 'men-deal- 
ers,' who carried off some negroes from New Jersey 
after the passage of the law to stop the trade in human 
Hesh have been caught in Pennsylvania, and we trust 
will meet their reward." 

5 

How long ago was a steamboat named "New 
Jersey"? Decemljer. 1818. Its boisterous pasage to 
Elkton. 'S]d., was attributed to its having a United 
States bank investigating committee on board. 

li 
W liat newspapers had New Jersey during the 
Revolution? "The New Jersey Gazette." first pub- 
lished at Burlington December 3. 1777, and the "New 
Jersey Journal," first pul)lishe(l in 177!» at Chatham. 
thence removed in 178(1 to Elizabethtown. 



Who christened Nassau Hail, first used l)y Prince- 
ton, whose first trustees were Church-of- England men? 
Governor Belcher — to honor William III. "Prince- 
ton" was on the "King's Highway" or stage route 
from New ^^>rk to I'hiladeli)hia. and the seeds of 
New Haven differences were sown there. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 99 

1 

How long ago was New Jersey a sort of head- 
quarters for negro trading? In 1818, wdien a vessel with 
a cargo of 56 kidnapped negroes shipped from Penh 
Amboy, was seized at New Orleans "for not having 
a manifest'' as required by law. 

2 
How fast were preachers "turned" out in 1818? 
Clerical licenses "given to six young men at the late 
session of the Presbytery at Elizabethtown," said the 
papers. 

3 
When was $400 a "big raise" in a New Jersey 
Governor's salary? In 1818, when that made it $2,200. 

4 
When was the 200th anniversary of the first legis- 
lative action by New Jersey celebrated? In 1683, at 
Trenton. 

5 
To whom mere gold medals, with Houdon's Wash- 
ington thereon, presented ]\lay 10, 1805. by the New 
Jersey Historical Society? Chancellor Green and ex- 
President Harrison, who addressed the Society. 

6 

What early strides did Newark make in educational 
matters? One schoolmaster engaged February 7. loTO. 
"Ye old floor in ye meeting house becomes a lioor in 
ye school house." in 1714; new school house author- 
ized March 8. 1774; votes one and a half acres for new 
academy March 14. 1775; appropriation of $500 for 
schooling the poor, 1814; Newark Library Association 
formed 1846. 

7 

Where are the full records of surveys and land- 
warrant sales of New Jersey from 1683 down to the 
Revolution to be seen? Those for East Jersey at Perth 
Amboy and for West Jersey at Burlino^ton. 

Where was calico first printed in New Jersey? In 
1794 at Paterson. 



100 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

Where was the Fourth of July celebrated on the 
7th ol Aujj^ust, 177(J? At Bridgeton, where the proces- 
sion marched to the Court House, where the Declara- 
tion, the New Jersey Constitution and the "Treason 
Ordinance" were publicly read and approved. After 
Dr. Elmer's address the King's coat-of-arms and other 
signs of royalty were bon-fired. 
2 

What "plain-dealing" and "well-meaning" men 
(Whig and Cliosophic) founded the two Princeton 
Halls? James Madison. Robert Ogden. William 
Paterson. Oliver Ellsworth, Luther Martin and T. 
Reeve, three of whom helped frame the Constitution, 
one became President, one Chief Justice of the United 
Stales, one Chief Justice of Connecticut, one United 
States Attorney General. 

3 

\'\'lKn was the Declaration of Independence pro- 
claimed in New Jersey? At Trenton. July 8. at Prince- 
ton and New Brunswick July !'. being carried "post- 
haste" to all parts of the Stale. "Nassau Hall was 
grandly illuminated and mdependency proclaimed un- 
der a triple \-olley of musketry, said the Scots Magazmc 
of August. 177(). 

1 

What postoffices in Jersey liave peculiar names? 
Avon-by-the-Sea. Raptistown. Barbertown. Barley- 
sheaf. Bivalve. Blue Anchitr. Caviar, Cheese(|uakc. 
Colt's Neck. Dutch Neck, Houses. Jobstown. Thoro- 
farc. Tranfiuilit}-. etc. 

When was the first iron smelted and run in New 
Jersey? March 7, 174M. from a furnace erectecl in 1711 
at Oxford, in Warren, then Sussex County. l-'irst 
churches in that county in 17 IJ .-it Wallpcck and Minni- 
sink. 

(I 

Where were the legislative acts of New Jersey dur- 
ing llie Revolutionary period printed? .\t Burlington 
in 177n. at Trenton in 1784. with rc-print in 18.T) at 
Woodbury. N. J. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 101 

1 

When was there a standing offer of about $750 for 
the vessel that would enter the ports of East Jersey 
rather than those of New York? In 17G9. when Amboy 
had been declared a free port and the Governor of New 
York had seized a Barbadoes vessel which had entered 
Amboy and compelled its master to pay duties at New 
York. That was the year when East Jersey was 
"ordered sold" for the benefit of the creditors of its 
"dead" proprietor, Sir George Carteret. 

2 
In what collection are copies of letters — cor- 
respondence — of the Royal Governors of New Jersey 
with neighboring Colonial Governors? In the Sparks 
"MSS." 

3 
What States other than New Jersey have the word 
"New" in their names? New Hampshire, New York, 
New iMexico and the so-called New England States. 

4 

Which counties in New Jersey are by name in no 
other States? Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Cape May, 
Hudson, Hunterdon, ^Monmouth, Ocean, Passaic, 
Salem. 

.5 

Where are the original records of wills for East 
and West New Jersey kept? In the office of Secretary 
of State at Trenton. 

6 

Where are the letter books of Governor Belcher of 
New Jersey? In the Massachusetts Historical Society 
Library. 

7 

What proof gives one writer that New Jersey was 
the chief battle ground of the Revolution? "The main 
American arm.y, except for a period of nine months, 
between September, 1777, and June, 1778, when the 
British occupied Philadelphia, and for the two months 
in the autiimn of 1781, when the expedition was on foot 
against Cornv.-allis in Virginia, was during the whole 
war within or on the confines of the State." (Gordon.) 




102 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

What New Jersey counties are nominally repre- 
sented in other States? Camden, in Georgia, Mis- 
souri, North Carolina: Cumberland in Illinois. Ken- 
tucky. Maine, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennes- 
see, Virginia; Essex, in Massachusetts, New York. 
Vermont. Virginia; Gloucester, in Virginia; Mercer, 
in Illinois, Kentucky. Missouri. North Dakota. Ohio. 
Pennsylvania, West Virginia; Middlesex, in Connecti- 
cut. Massachusetts. \'irginia; Morris, in Kansas and 
Texas; Somerset, in Maine, Maryland. Pennsylvania: 
Sussex, in Delaware and Virginia; Union, in Arkansas. 
Georgia, Illinois. Indiana. Iowa. Kentucky, Louisiana. 
Mississippi, New Mexico. Ohio. Oregon. Pennsyl- 
vania. South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee: 
Warren, in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky. 
Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, 
Ohio. Pennslyvania. Tennessee and Virginia. 



How long was the "odious" Stamp Act in force? 
From March 22. 1765, to March 18. 170(5. 

3 

Where and when was the first Ministerial Epis- 
copal Convention? At Elizabethtown November, 17(1(1, 
delegates ironi New Jersey. New York. Connecticut 
and Philadelphia being present to decide on a "Plan 
ot L'nion." 

-1 

What was the comparative strength of sects in New 
Jersey in 17(55? Congregations: Presbyterians 55. 
Friends 30. Episcopal 21. Dutch Reformed 21. Baptists 
20. The Quakers had "meetings": Burlington II. 
Gloucester 7, Middlesex and Salem 4 each. Monmouth 
3. etc. 

5 

Which was the first State to encourage railroads? 
New Jersey, in 1815, when the Legislature granted a 
charter at the instance of John Stevens, of Hoboken, 
for a road four rods wide, either of wood or iron, from 
the River Delaware near Trenton, to the River Raritan, 
near New Brunswick. 



THINGS NEW AND OIvD. 103 

1 

Which was the first individual purchase of lands in 
the present New Jersey? The district called Hoboken 
— Hacking — "Pavonia" on the west side of the River 
Alauritus, opposite New Amsterdam. Date July 12, 
JG30, followed by an adjoining purchase November 22, 
1G30. The first colony was planted by De Vries on the 
Delaware in 1631. 

2 

When had New Jersey only six postoffices? In 
1791. Princeton. Trenton. Newark, Elizabethtown, 
Rahway (Bridgeton). New Brunswick. 

3 
When did large numbers of the Delaware Indians 
of New Jersey move to the banks of the jMuskingum in 
Ohio? In 1740, but those who remained were in 1755 
tampered with by the French, who promised to recover 
certain lands for them. 

4 
Who was the first Indian captain in the regular 
army of the United States? A Delaware Indian of New 
Jersey, who had adopted Christianity. 

5 

When was the first yarn spun at the Paterson 
works? In 17!)3, two years after a Bible (quarto edition) 
was printed at Trenton. 

6 

What gloomy views had Colonel Morris, of Middle- 
town, in the year 1700? "Middletown was settled from 
New York and New England; it is a large township; 
there is no such thing as church or religion amongst 
them, they are perhaps the most ignorant and wicked 
people in the world; their meetings on Sundays are at 
the public house, where they get their fill of rum. and 
go fiohting and running of races which are practices 
much in use at that day all the Province over." (Had the 
reaction from Puritanism begun then?) 

7 
How many fulling mills for home woolens in 1784? 
Forty-one. the first being built in 1703, on a grant 
(reward) of twenty acres. 



104 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

What of the vessel Kamschatka. which. November 
24. 184<», was the largest steamship of war in the world? 
She was «)i»» horse power, double decker, 2.05(1 tons and 
received her machinery at Jersey City, where it was 
originally intended to launch her for the Czar of Russia. 
■) 

Where was the first Medical Society organized? 
In New Jersey. July 23. ITOO. 

3 
How long ago were patents on paper-hangings 
issued to people of New Jersey? A century, there being 
prior to 1787 paper-hanging factories in Philadelplua 
and New Jersey. New Jersey. Pennsylvania and Dela- 
ware contained forty paper mills in 1700. and the second 
paper mill in the country was built at Elizabethtown. 

1 

What wonderful man and friend to our Revolution- 
ary cause and human liberty in general lived at Borden- 
town, N. J.? Thomas Paine, whose pamphlet. "Com- 
mon Sense." was ecjual to "an army with banners." so 
one writer said. 

5 

What did a writer in 184(1 call Monmouth. N. J.? 
"The San Salvador of the Northern States of the Union. 
It was the beautiful bold shore and the richly crested 
hills of Navesink that drew Hudson into the Bay of 
Raritan and the River Manhattan, and gave to our 
Dutch ancestors the most delightful and luxuriant i)or- 
tion of the American continent. On our shore her 
comnian<ler first landed." 



How did Jacob Spicer of Caj)e May County solilo- 
f|uize in 17'>7"-' "1 must pursue the following maxims 
inv.iriably. \<<v tlu- jiresetit year: I nuist supply my 
boys with leather for winter breeches, twenty-four 
])oun(ls ot gray skin will sufTice. I must buv my leather 
and heels and sjjin my shoe thread and h.ive all my 
shot's made up in the house. Next 1 should hire my 
tailor and tailoress in the house and oblige my girls 
to assist in the service." etc. 



THINGS NEW AND OI.D. 105 

1 

Whence, according to Colonel Morris (A. D. 1700) 
came other settlers? "Perth Amboy, the Capital City, 
settled from Europe. The people of that town are a 
mixture of persuasions." "Freehold from Scotland." 
"Elizabethtown and Newark from New England, gen- 
erally Independents." "Woodbridge and Piscatawny 
from New England." "Shrewsbury from New England, 
New York and Rhode Island." "There are in it about 
thirty Quakers of both sexes, the rest of the people are 
generally of no religion. In a word, a general ignor- 
ance and immorality runs through the youth of the 
whole Province." 

2 

What wholesome advice was given in IGSo to pros- 
pective settlers in "the Province of East Jersey, in 
America"? We will not encourage any to go there in 
the 'Expectation of gold and silver mines' and would 
not advise any to seek them out, as they but occasion 
envy and emulation; nor yet is there sugar nor indigo 
nor cotton." 

3 

What was one indication in the West about fifty 
years ago that the emigrant had come from New 
Jersey? The names given by him to certain Spanish 
coins — then current — such as "levy" for the shilling 
of \2^ cents and "fip" for the sixpence of 6^ cents. 
Fip was the contraction of fippenny, live-penny-bit, and 
levy for eleven-penny-bit of money. 

4 

When did East New Jersey furnish food for the 
Western world? In 1G85, when the same writer says: 
"This, with the Province of New York, being the 
granary or storehouse of the West Indies, without 
which Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands could not 
subsist, for New England is forced to come here 'every 
year for corn.' " 

5 

What other origin than Norway has been given 
Bergen? Named after the town of Bergen in Holland, 
or from the hills— Bergen— which the Hollanders first 
saw when they landed. 



100 HISTORICAL HANI) BOOK OF NEW JKRSEY. 

1 

How much more p<»piilation had Xcw Jersey in 
17<H than that of both the Carohnas? ."i.uiMi. wliile in 
175o "The Jerseys" had (JU.OW to the Carohnas' 75.0(»0. 
o 

How much had a person to be worth to become 
a state legislator m 1770? One thousand pounds, procla- 
mation money, it a Councilman, and oou pounds it for 
member of the Assembly. Xu conditions as to age and 
citizenship. 

•i 

When, in 17<'l. the population of "The Jerseys" 
was lo.iHKi.what was that of the sister states? Massa- 
chusetts 7<t.<MM», Connecticut and New York Md.dun each. 
Rhode Island and Xcw Hampshire l»i.(t(Mi each. Penn- 
sylvania 2o.(MK». Maryland •_':>. t"io. \'irgina 4U.<XM. Xorth 
Carolina ."■).<•"•» and South Cartdina 7.»mm». 

1 

What did Ka>t Xcw Jersey do for education in 
l«i!».'i? Its Assembly passed "An act for the establish- 
ment of sclioolmasters in the provinces, for the culti- 
vation of learning and good manners, and for the good 
and benefit of mankind." 

.') 

Wlu-n was the "College of Xcw Jersey" started? 
In 174«). and in KotJ it was located at Princeton. Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary founded in 1811. 

«; 

Where wa> the first public meeting held in Xew 
Jersey to express symj)athy with the people of Boston, 
regarding the Stamp Act? At Lower F'reehold. June G, 
1771. 

I 

What was Ben Franklin's rei)ly in 17S1 to his rec- 
reant, disloyal son. William. ex-Governor of New 
Jersey? "Nothing has ever hurt me so much and 
affected me with such keen sensations as to find myself 
deserted in my old age by my only son: and not only 
deserted, but to finrl him taking up arms against mc. 
in a cause wherein my good fame, fortune and life were 
all at -take." 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 107 

1 

What of Rutgcr's College? Chartered in 1770 by 
George III. of England. First called "Queens," and 
in 1825 named after Henry Rutgers. It is located at 
Brunswick under the Dutch Reformed Church au- 
spices. 

2 

What instance of economy on a large scale is told 
of the Holland government? "In 1821 all the books, 
documents and papers belonging to the old Dutch 
West India Company of a date prior to 1700. and relat- 
ing among other things (early history of New York 
and New Jersey) to their early voyages to and settle- 
ment of this country, were by order of the government 
sold at auction. Eighty thousand pounds weight of 
these precious MSS. were sold by the pound as so 
much waste paper." (Broadhead.) 

■A 
Why was the word Monmouth substituted for 
Na>'esink? Because it stuck (with its many spellings — 
"Newsing," "Newaskink." "Newsandes," "Neusens," 
etc.) in English throats. The change was made in l(i82. 
In 1()75 one of the four counties of New Jersey em- 
braced "the two towns of Navesink." 

4 
What interest did George Fox, the Quaker, take 
in education? In 1G67 he advised the "Friends" in New 
Jersey to start boarding schools, that young men of 
genius, in low circumstances, may be furnished with 
means to procure a requisite education." 

5 

What was done before New Jersey had a printer 
of her own? A Philadelphia printer came over with 
his press to print, at Burlington, a lot of paper money 
for the State. New Jersey had a resident printer and 
press in 1751. 

6 

What shows that New Jersey was better known at 
one time in Europe than New York? A Dutch map of 
1616 more accurately describes the northern shores of 
Monmouth, N. J., than the west part of Long Island. 



108 HISTORICAlv HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

How was a glass manufacUirer at Frcasburg ruined 
by his imported German workmen in 1748? They de- 
serted in a body (struck) for the superior attractions 
of real estate. Each wanted a farm. 
2 

\\hat kinds of glass were first made? Window, 
near Malaga, in 1780. and hollow-w^are at Glassboro, in 
1810. 

3 

Who introduced hemp and fiax raising and manu- 
facture? The Scotch emigrants of West Jersey in 1684, 
and the Quakers the makmg of serges, crepes, plushes, 
linen cloth and druggets as early as 1078. 
4 

Why was New Jersey called "a happy place and 
worthy of the name of Paradise," in the days of 
Berkeiy and Carteret? Because it contained "no law- 
yers, no parsons and no physicians." 

5 

What writer of patriotic songs, "sung with en- 
thusiasm" during the Revolution, lies buried at Free- 
hold? Freneau (age 8u). a Princeton graduate and the 
friend of Adams, Jefferson and other Presidents. 
6 

When do the gay birds of Brazil and Central 
America pay New Jersey their annual visit? In March 
and April, returning in the fall. 

Where had New Jersey a community correspond- 
ing to the "Brook Farm" experiment in New England? 
At Leedsville, four miles from Red Bank. It started 
in 1843 and ended in 1858. the pioneers from Albany. 
N. v.. buying over 70U acres and erecting a "Pha- 
lanistery" and mill, etc.. there. It was a joint stock 
company of 150 persons of both sexes, living and work- 
ing on the socialistic or communistic plan of Fourier, 
the Frenchman. 

8 

How much did the population of "The Jerseys'* 
increase from 17<»1 to 1755? From 15.oou to GO.(XK). 



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110 HISTORICAI. HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

How many farms had N. J. in 1880? 34,307, and 
30,828 in 1890. 

2 

How many acres in these farms? In 1880, 2,929,- 
773, worth $190,895,833. In 1890, 2,662,009 acres, and 
average size of farms, 86 acres each. In 1890 the 313 
abandoned farms contained a total of 18,487 acres. 
3 

What were the total farm products in 1880 worth? 
$43,000,000, and of 1890. $28,997,349. 

4 

How much corn did N. J. produce in 1880? Bushels 
11,150,705 and 1,901,739 bushels of wheat. The corn 
product of 1890 from 267.848 acres was 8,037,011 bushels, 
and the wheat product of 1890 from 121,570 acres was 
1,823,342 bushels, or one and one-fourth bushels to each 
inhabitant. 

5 

How much was the aggregate value in 1880 of land 
and buildings — real estate — in N. J.? Over 442 mil- 
lion dollars, and in 1890 over 565 million dollars. 

6 
How many dwellings in N. J. in 1880? About 190,- 
403. with an average of five or six persons to each 
dwelling. 

7 
How many farmers in N. J. in 1880? 5i).214. 
Merchants? 79,300. Manufacturers? 160,561. 
8 
What amount of capital was invested in manu- 
factures in N. J. in 1880? $80,000,000. and paying $30,- 
000,000 in wages. In 1890 $96,778,736 in wages were 
paid to 187.3f)8 employees. 
9 
What was the aggregate of tho animals slaughtered 
in N. J. in 1880? $19,000,000. Illinois and New York 
outranking N. J. In 1890, 67 N. J. slaughtering estab- 
lishments paid $673,784 in wages to 840 employes, and 
used $16,370,632 in materials to make $18,061,908 in 
l)r()(lucts. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. Ill 

1 

What did the fisheries of N. J. amount to in 
1880. Product, $3,200,000, on a capital of $1,492,200, 
and 6,220 persons employed. In 1889 the product was 
$3,130,893; capital, $3,083,360, and persons employed, 
10,834. 

2 
What was the rank of N. J. among the states in 
1880 in iron and steel manufacture? Fifth, Pennsyl- 
vania being first, Ohio second. New York third, Mis- 
souri fourth, Massachusetts sixth and Illinois seventh 
in order. In glass making? Green, first; window, sec- 
ond; Pennsylvania the reverse. In brick and tile? 
Fifth, with one and three-fourth million, to Illinois's 
two and one-half, Ohio two and three-fourths. New 
York four, and Pennsylvania five million dollars in the 
business. Massachusetts ranks sixth and Indiana 
seventh. 

3 
What cities had the most business in 1880 in 
slaughtering and meat packing? Chicago first. New 
York second, Jersey City next, Cincinnati, O., fourth, 
Indianapolis fifth and St. Louis sixth. 

4 
Which were the leading manufacturing counties of 
N. J. in 1880? Essex, Hudson and Passaic. 

5 
How did the two leading cities, Newark and Jersey 
Cty, rank among other cities of the U. S., with over 
100,000 population in past 30 years? Newark, 1870, 
13th; 1880, 15th; 1890. 17th. Jersey City, 1880, 17th; 
1890, 19th. Minneapolis being 18th, Louisville 20th, 
Omaha 21st, and so on. 

6 
How many other cities in the U. S. besides Newark 
and Jersey City had in 1880 over 100.000 inhabitants? 
Eighteen. In 1890? Twenty-six. 

7 
How did other cities in N. J. progress in popula- 
tion? Camden, 1880, 41,059; 1890, 58,313. Paterson, 
1880,51.031; 1890,78,347. Trenton, 1880, 29,910; 1890, 
57,458. 



112 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NKW JERSEY. 

1 

How did Newark with 181.830 and Jersey City with 
1G3,<M,)8 inhabitants, compare with some of the states 
and territories in population in 1880? Arizona. 59,620; 
Delaware. 108,493; Idaho. 84,385; Montana. 132,159; 
Nevada. 45,761; New Mexico, 153,693; North Dakota, 
182,719; Oklahoma, 61.834; Wyoming. 60.705. 
•) 

How much did the population of N. J. exceed that 
■of Maine and West Virginia combined in 180<>? 21,053. 
3 
How much less was the combined population of 
Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont and Wyoming than 
that of N. J. in 1890? 14,200. 
4 
How much is N. J. taxed for each child attending 
public school? About four dollars. 

5 

How has N. J. progressed, in (iO years, in railroads? 
1830, 14 miles; 189<». 2,117; but New York and Penn- 
•sylvania companies own or control most of this mileage. 
6 

What is the pottery product of N. J.? About $2.- 
500.000; that of glass. $3.8oo.O(iO; that of white glazed 
ware about $5,900,000. 

7 

What is the population (1890) and present area of 
the counties of N. J.? 

Atlantic. Population. 28,836. Area. 5(55 square 
miles, or 3()1,600 acres. 

Bergen. Population. 47.226. Area. 235 square 
miles, or 150.400 acres. 

Burlington. Poi)ulation. 58,528. Area, 8()<> square 
miles, or 550,400 acres. 

Camden. Population. 87.687. Area. 22o scjuare 
miles, or 140.800 acres. 

Cape May. Population, 11.268. Area. 255 stjuare 
miles, or 163.200 acres. 

Cumberland. Population. 45.438. Area. 505 sijuarc 
miles, or 323. 2oo acres. 



THINGS NKW AND OLD. 



113 



Essex. Population, 256,098. 
miles, or 81,280 acres. 

Gloucester. Population. 28,649. 
miles, or 208,640 acres. 

Hudson. Population, 275,126. 
miles, or 27,520 acres. 

Hunterdon. Population, 35,355. 
miles, or 277,760 acres. 

Mercer. Population, 79,978. 
miles, or 144,000 acres. 

Middlesex. Population, 61,754. 
miles, or 198,400 acres. 

Monmouth. Population, 69,128. 
miles, or 304,000 acres. 

Morris. Population, 54,101. 
miles, or 300,800 acres. 

Ocean. Population, 15,974. 
miles, or 361,920 acres. 

Passaic. Population, 105,046. 
miles, or 126,080 acres. 

Salem. Population 
miles, or 217,600 acres. 

Somerset. Population, 28,311 
miles, or 193,920 acres. 

Sussex. Population 
miles, or 336,000 acres. 

Union. Population, 
miles, or 65,280 acres. 

Warren. Population, 36,553. 
miles, or 230,400 acres. 

1 

Which County has the smallest area? Hudson, 43 
square miles. Which the greatest? Burlington, 860 
square miles, and Ocean, 578 square miles, the next. 
Four counties have less than 200 square miles each and 
four others less than 300 square miles each. 



Area, 


127 


square 


Area, 


326 


square 


Area 


43 


square 


Area 


434 


square 


Area, 


225 


square 


Area 


310 


square 


Area 


, 475 


square 


Area, 


470 


square 


Area, 


578 


square 


Area, 


197 


square 



25,151. Area, 340 square 



Area, 303 square 



22,259. Area, 525 square 



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Area, 
Area, 



102 square 
360 square 



What would the entire area of N. J., divided among 
the 21 counties, give to each? Exactly 355 square miles, 
or 227,200 acres each. 



Ill HISTORICAL HANI) ROOK OF NKW JKRSEV. 

1 

How were the <J38.454 acres, devoted to "Cereals". 
in 1891. divided. Oats. 138,706 acres; corn. 360,915 
acres, and wheat, 138,833 acres. 
2 
What important terminus is Bayonne. N. J.? That 
of the Tide Water Oil Pipe Line — extending 284 miles, 
from Western Pennsylvania. 
3 
How has the mileage of railroads increased within 
60 years? 1841, 180 miles: 1851, 303 miles; 1861, 587 
miles; 1871, 1.145 miles; 1881, 1,718 miles; 1893, 2,15.3 
miles. 

4 
What is the simple English motto of the State? 
"Liberty and Independence." 
5 
What odious name did the alien press of 1893 try 
to fasten on N. J.? The Gambling State. 

6 
When was corpora! punishment in the public 
schools abolished? In 1867. 

7 
What press comment on the new N. J. law of 181ti. 
dividing estates of intestates equally among heirs, male 
and female? "Thus, by degrees, the vile systems derived 
from yet federal Europe are frittering away." 
8 
What was called " a large animal" in lSl(i? Thr 
hog — eight feet eight inches long — weight 7'J3 pound- 
— raised in Monmouth Co. 
\) 
What book relating to the b'ar West appeared at 
Elizaix'thtown in 18i(>? "Kerr's Travels through th( 
Western Interior of the U. S.", 1808-10. 
10 
Why did I*lasl Jersey attempt, in l(iS6. to raise tlu- 
I)rice of gold and silver above their true value? T«> 
prevent its exportation, but the "scheme" failed in a 
year. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. llo 

1 

How did N. J. rank as to Sunday School children 
in 1893? She led the states — having 24 per cent, to 
Ohio's 23, out of the 11,000,000 in the whole country. 
2 

How long is the public school year? About nine 
months and four days. 

3 

What Assistant U. S. P. M. Generals are from N. J.? 
Chas. K. Gardner, from 1829 to 1836; James W. Mar- 
shall, from Dec. 1, '69 to July 7, '74, and from Aug. 24, 
'74 to March 16, '77. 

4 

By whom were the Justices of U. S. Supreme Court 
from- N. J. appointed? William Patterson (died 1806), 
by Washington, March 4, 1793; Joseph P. Bradley, by 
Grant, March 7, 1870. 

5 

Which Ex Governors of N. J. were living Oct. 1, 
1897? E. P. Seeley, Wm. A. Newell, George C. Lud- 
low and Geo. T. Wertz. 

6 

Who was the first Chaplain of Congress? Wm. 
Linn, Pres. pro tern. (1791-4) of Queen's — Rutger's 
College. 

7 

Why was J. H. Livingston, Pres. (1810-25) of 
Queen's — Rutger's College — called "the Father of 
the Dutch Reformed Church in America"? Because, 
in 1769-70, he secured a divorce of the American 
churches from the Dutch (Holland) Glassies. 
8 

How much did Rutger's College receive from Henry 
Rutger, of New York, when it changed its name, Dec. 
5, 1825, from "Queen's" to "Rutger's"? $5,000. The 
donor, a bachelor all his life, owned large tracts of land 
in N. Y. City. 

9 

What was the political cry of the Whigs in 18U? 
"Clay and Frelinghuysen" — the latter being known as 
the "Christian Statesman", who as U. S. Senator (1829) 
advocated the removal of the Indians beyond the Mis- 



116 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

sissippi. Few Americans were connected with more 
religious and benevolent societies than Frelinghuysen, 
who died in 18()1. 

1 
What was the theme of the Millvill^ novelist who 
won in 18!).") the New York Herald prize? "Your money 
or your life." 

2 

When had Elizabeth a woman who went to sleep 
Thanksgiving Day and could not be aroused? In Dec. 
1895. 

3 

Why was a B. and O. train stopped by officials at 
Somerville in Nov. 1895? Because not equipped with 
"grab-irons", as required by the Interstate Commerce 
Law. which imposed a penalty of i?;5.0(io. 

4 

Who was the winner in 1895 of the $1,000 New York 
Herald prize for the best epic poem on an American 
theme? A Newark preacher, whose poem was ".\bra- 
ham Lincoln." 

5 

Why was a divine in Guttenberg forced to leave the 
ministry — when his people objected to his adding un- 
dertaking to his parishional duties? Because his salary 
had been .*28.50 only for a period of six months. 

How was the ancient feud between Rome and Lu- 
ther revived on Jersey City Heights in Dec. 18!)5? By 
a Catholic billy-goat entering the St. Paul's Lutheran 
church and devouring all the hvmn-books in the seats 
before mounting the pulpit and swallowing the church 
Bible. His sentence was death. 
(I 

How much per line was the Newark minister i)aitl 
in 1895 for an "'»<> line ei)ic poem on Abraliam Lincoln? 
About $1.4:1 

7 

Where was first broached the reform idea of a Hun- 
dred Day U. S. CcMigress — whose members should be 
paid for business, not ])olitical. work. $:1<M»0 a session, 
and mt milcagr. or percjuisites? In New Jersey. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 117 

1 

What plan was advanced, in 189(). for keeping the 
history of New Jersey and her 21 counties up to date? 
That the Secretary of State, or Supt. of Pubhc Instruc- 
tion, be required, with added salary, to keep, in an- 
nalistic form, a record of the current events, etc., 
which go to make up the history of a State, including 
therein the more important transactions and events in 
the several counties as forwarded to him by the his- 
torians ex-officio of those counties. The same require- 
ments as to current annalistic records to apply to coun- 
ties, whose historians under extra pay, may be ex-officio 
the County Clerk or Registrar of said counties. 
2 

Under which Governor had a man to be sentenced 
thrice before his execution, Dec. 26, '95? Wertz, in case 
of Lambert, the murderer of the Camden banker. 

3 

Whence came one of the three General Managers 
under "the President's Agreement" of 1806 of the lead- 
ing Trunk Lines of the U. S.? Paterson, in Mr. Hobert. 
4 

What adieu did a drunken lecturer receive at Pater- 
son, in the fall of 1895? A farewell, at the Erie Depot, 
from the "Decorative Order of the Ancient Egg" — the 
press said. 

5 

What affirmative decision, originating in N. J., was 
handed down Dec. 26, '95, by the U. S. Supreme Court? 
An appeal from a verdict of $315 and costs — vs. a Ber- 
gen railway Co. for ousting Morgan and wife from its 
cars for tender of 10 cents in abraded silver coin. Such 
tender legal if coin is only worn by use. 
6 

What is the altitude of Trenton at a lock on the 
Delaware and Raritan Canal? Fifty feet. 
7 

Where is Ancient Caesarca. or Caesar's Isle, now 
named Jersey, after which New Caesarea. or New Jersey, 
was named? In the English Channel, 15 miles west of 
France and 88 S. by E. of England. It is a rocky isle, 



ILS HISTORICAL HAND HOOK OK NKW JKRSEV 

about 11 miles long by 4 to G miles wide, with a popu- 
lation (in 1891) of about 55,000 inhabitants, chiefly of 
Xorman-French descent. It has a legislature, or par- 
liament, of its own — tributary like its military force of 
500 — to the British Crown. Jersey has one railway of 
its own and like Alderney, a neighboring island, is cele- 
brated for its fine cattle. 

Where besides N. J. did "boroughs" (introduced 
from England by Wm. Penn) exist in 1896? In Penn- 
sylvania, Connecticut and Minnesota. 
2 

What ardent patriot and Chief Justice of N. J., from 
1779 to 1789, opposed, in the Convention of 1787, un- 
equal representation of states? David Brearlev. born 
1745, died 1790. 

3 

Which of the "royal" governors of N. J. was one 
of the reputed leaders of the iKssociated Loyalists — the 
N. Y. Tory Society of 1780 — whose private vessels 
raided the siiores of N. J.? Dr. Franklin's son. 
4 

What X. J. journalist, abolitionist and associate of 
J. G. Birney — had his newspaper office — "Cincinnati 
Philanthropist" — sacked three times by a mob? Ga- 
maliel Bailey (1807-1859; who from 1847 to 1859 pub- 
lished the "National Era" (Washington, D. C), in 
which Uncle Tom's Cabin first appeared. 
5 

When did Nominating Conventions take the place, 
in part, of the political Caucus System? In N. J. in 
1812; in Pennsylvania 1788 and 1792. and New York in 
1825. 

6 

Where was James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), 
the novelist, born? In Burlington, N. J. 

7 
Where did Andros, the New York Ciovernnr, who, 
in 18()<). "seized" X. J., spend his early life, as a bailiff 
and soldier? On the isle of Guernsey, near Old Jersey, 
in tlu- British Channel. 



THINGS NEW AND OI.D. 119 

1 

How early was voting by ballot made obligatory in 
N. J. and Pennsylvania. In 1776. 

2 

For what specific purpose was the National Coloni- 
zation Society started at Princeton in 1816 and reorgan- 
ized in Washington, D. C, formed? To relieve the 
South of its free blacks, by sending them to Africa and 
elsewhere. 

3 

What "snap" was given the firm of Goadsby and 
Cox, in 1786, by N. J.? The right to coin £10,000 in 
coin — 15 coppers to the shilling — ■ with Nova Caesarea, 
Exergne 1786, etc., on one side, and E. Pluribus Unum, 
etc., on the reverse. Vermont was the first, in 1785, 
to coin copper cents, and she too, let the contract to 
private parties. 

4 

What prominent Jersey man — through friendship 
for Aaron Burr — got mixed up in the Conspiracy of 
1807? Jonathan Dayton, born 1760, died 1824. 

5 

What shocking death at New Brunswick, Feb. 14, 
1896? That of Usher Masterson, who was pushed in 
front of a train and killed by an angry man, whose 
life he had tried to save. 

6 

Who, in 1896, had been a N. J. editor 43 years, and 
was then the oldest in newspaper work in the State? 
A. A. Vance, of the "Jerseyman." 

7 

What importance attaches to the old case of 
"Holmes vs. Walton"? The first instance of an Amer- 
ican Court questioning the Act of a Legislature. The 
N. J. Legislature of 1779 made lawful a trial before a 
jury of six men and the Court declared that act uncon- 
stitutional. 

8 

Where, in the U. S., did Free-Masonry get its start? 
In N. J., in 1730, when a Provincial grand master was 
appointed there. 



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120 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NKW JERSEY. 

1 

Which governor of N. J. was also governor, for 11 
years, of Massachusetts? Belcher, born 1681, died 1757. 
2 

For how long, up to 1896, had the proprietary 

rights of E. and W. New Jersey been maintained at 

Perth Amboy and Burlington? About "ioo years — 

being undisturbed by the "Quo warranto" suits of 1686. 

3 

Where did E. Pluribus Unum, the motto of "Gen- 
tlemen's Magazine", and known to Virgil in his "More- 
turn", first appear on coin.? In N. J., in 1786, when 
Goadsby and Cox \vere minters to the State. As a 
motto for U. S. it was first suggested Aug. 10, 1776, by 
Franklin, Adams and Jefferson, the Committee on the 
Great Seal. 

4 

What ancient town is said to have been first gov- 
erned according to the Mosaic law? The Puritan (Ct.) 
Newark of 1666. 

5 

What led citizens of other states to humorously 
say that N. J. was no part of the U. S. and her people 
were foreigners? The advent in her midst of the Ex- 
King of Spain and Naples, for whom a special act was 
passed — after its refusal by Pennsylvania — granting 
him the right to hold real estate besides his settlement 
in princely style, at Bordentown. 
6 

What student of Princeton invented the political 
epithet of "Doughface", and got up a duel with Henry 
Clay by calling the Adams and Clav faction "a coali- 
tion between the Blackleg and Puritan"? John Ran- 
dolph, of Roanoke. 

What the estimated number of ferry passengers, by 
1900. from Jersey City, Hoboken and Newark? About 
50,00<l,000. 

8 

What privilege was awarded to the only lady law- 
yer ])rior to 1896 in New Jersey? To wear her hat in 
court. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 121 

1 

What woman was given a Sargeant's Commission 
and commended by Washington for bravery, in 1778, 
at the battle of Monmouth? Molly Pitcher, whose hus- 
band was killed while firing a cannon, and whose place 
she took to avenge his death. 
2 

Who, as Prof. Morse's associate, invented the Al- 
phabetical Characters used in the Morse System? 
Alfred Vail (1807-1859), of N J. 

3 

What, in 189G, was the estimated number of per- 
sons living in N. J. within 30 miles of New York, tribu- 
tary to the North River ferries? About 1,250,000, and 
same number for same radius on Long Island, patrons 
of East River ferries. 

4 
What wonderful man had been on the Supreme 
Court of N. J. for 30 years up to 1896? Chief Justice 
Beasley — who, though 80 years old — stood it through 
the State Senate Steal trial, and with his own hand wrote 
that honest decision of about 5,000 words. 
5 
What announcement came at the heels of the Vene- 
zuelan affair in Jan. 1896? That of Kinsel's (Hoboken) 
Balloon Boat and Battle Ship — cost $35,000 as agamst 
$3,000,000 for a man of war — with which at a speed of 
125 miles an hour, dynamite by the barrel might be 
rained down on any British fleet. 
6 
Which three lines of latitude run through New 
Jersey? Lat. 39, 40 and 41 — also the longitudes 74 
and 75. 

7 
How high would the hills of N. J. have to be to be 
covered with perpetual snow? About 9,000 feet. 
8 
What business range had a N. J. Match Co.. with 
$5,000,000 capital, formed in Jan. 1896? To plant offices 
in New York, San Francisco, Milan, Turin, and all the 
chief cities of Europe, Asia, and Africa. 



122 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

How many members had the Masons of N. J. when 
in Jan. '96, they celebrated, at Trenton, their 109th an- 
nual communication? 15,685. 

2 
What was the most dreadful night in Boundbrook's 
existence? Feb. 6, 1896, when fire, flood and famine 
stared the place in the face. Raritan's overflow filled 
its main street about 10 feet high, or deep. 

3 
How long ago did Congresj vote to N. J. a copy of 
the Declaration of Independence? Jan. 20, 1777. 

4 
When were "Spain's eyes" — through one of her 
spies — on a vessel undergoing repairs at Perth Am-, 
boy? In Feb. '96,. when the Cuban insurrection was in 
progress. 

5 
Why was a fight on, in Feb. 1896, between the Na- 
tional Docks Co. and the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. 
at Point of Rocks? Because the former wanted to tun- 
nel the latter's tracks. 

6 
Why were the Havemeyer farms, at Railway, and 
the Lindhurst farms, at Glassborough, called "fancy 
farms", in Feb. 1896? Because of their exhibits at the 
New York Poultry and Pigeon Association, where 5,000 
entries of "high class chickens" etc., from Canada and 
a dozen of the U. S. 

7 
How long was the St. Paul stranded off Long 
Branch? From Jan. 25 to Feb. 4. '96 — when tugs, 
with fore and aft chains, aided by the tides, pulled her 
out of the sand. 

8 
Why was Hammonton Church crowded to suffoca- 
tion in Feb. 1896? For joy that Mary Passmore was 
to be wedded to James Watkis, both of whom had 
waited 15 long years to escape the ire of a father, who 
had died. Though often pleaded with by the people to 
let the couple be happy, "the old man" would not budge 
an inch. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 128 

1 

How many millionaires were interested, in Jan. 
1896. in improving Neversink (Hilton) Park of 260 
acres? Thirty, as a corporation. 

2 

What rumor was current in Cuban and Spanish 
circles about certain boats — Neptune and Narino — 
lying in the Perth Amboy shipyards Feb. 5, '96? That 
a Sugar Syndicate had put up $500,000 to help Gomez 
burn sugar plantations in order to boom the price of 
sugar. 

3 

When was a concurrent resolution to endorse the 
Monroe Doctrine, as voiced in Cleveland's message, 
tabled by the Legislature? In Feb. 1896. 

4 
When was the N. J. State Board of Health estab- 
lished? In March 1877. 

5 
Why did 60 prominent Virginians visit N. J. Feb. 
4, 1896? To inspect the stone roads of the Good Rod- 
way State. 

6 
How was N. J. indirectly related to Cuban affairs 
in Jan. 1896? Jan. 28 the "Hawkins", with Cuban vol- 
unteers and guns aboard, sank off Barnegat and six men 
drowned, and Jan. 30 the U. S. made arrests of the 
crew. 

7 
How stood the vote in the U. S. Constitutional Con- 
vention of 1787-9 on the term of President? For mak- 
ing it seven years: New Jersey, New York, Pennsyl- 
vania, Delaware and Virginia; against Connecticut, 
Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. 

8 
What was the vote on making the term six years? 
N. J., Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Mary- 
land, Virginia, N. Carolina, S. Carolina and Georgia. 
One vote was taken making the term seven years, with 
ineligibility to a second term, but the final vote was for 
four years, and no second or third term clause. 



124 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JKRSEY. 

1 

What big vessel, with $l,3(»n.()(M) in specie aboard, 
was sandbar refl during a fog Jan. 2o.l8!J(i. between Long 
Branch and Xew Long Branch? The American Hner 
St. Paul, with 7<»o passengers, including a prince. Ex 
Congressman, etc.. abcjard. 

2 
What prominent Xew Jerseyman died almost simul- 
taneously Jan. 2(). '!Mi. with a son of Ex Pres. Tyler — 
a son of Ex Sec'y Folger and Ripley the newspaper 
associate of Grecly? Theodore Runyan (born at Som- 
erville. Oct. 25, 1822) U. S. Minister to Germany, by 
appointment of Cleveland in March 1893. From 1873 
to 1887 he was Chancellor of N. J. — in 1850 codified 
the militia laws of the State — in 1857 was General of 
the National Guard, and during the war. 18G1-5. Briga- 
dier General. 

3 
What was the outcome, in Jan. 18!M), of a revival at 
Hightstown? A public reading room to which the 
Astors, Armours. Goulds. Rockefellers and other "mag- 
nates" w^ere contributors of books and money to that 
Light on the Heights. 

4 
Who sent wreaths and ribbons, with their initials, 
to the Theodore Runyon memorial funeral held at Ber- 
lin Jan. 30. 1806? The Emperor and Empress of Ger- 
many, and Prince Leopold was present. 

5 
Who was entrusted. Oct. 3. 1770. by the Joint Legis- 
lative Committee, of which Richard Smith was chair- 
man, with the procurement of a Great Seal for the State? 
Francis Hopkinson, who ordered made in Philadelphi i 
a round silver seal, two and one-half inches across ani i 
three-eights of an inch in thickness — with three jilowi 
— a horse's head — and Liberty and Ceres as supi)ort-\ 
ers. engraved thereon. 


Where, and on what occasion, was the "PresideiU's 
March", which formed the tune of "Hail Columbia", 
played in 1780? .Xt Trenton, when Gen. Washington 
was passing through to be itiaugurated at Xew ^'ork. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD, 125 

1 

What emblems adorn the State flag of N. J.? Thir- 
teen horizontal red and white stripes, with a central blue 
shield, on which is the State Coat of Arms. 

2 
What soldier, engaged in the battle of Trenton, 
painted, in 1779, a portrait of Washington as he ap- 
peared in that battle? C. W. Peale, whose work is now 
in the Smithsonian Institute at Washington. 

3 
When was the Salvation Army farm of 1,000 acres 
— for colonizing the poor after the plan of the one at 
Hadleigh, England — suggested for Manwah, in Bergen 
Co.? In Jan. 1896. 

4 
What was the progenitor, or forerunner, of the 
Princeton of 1746? Log College of 1726, constructed 
of logs from trees lining the banks of a stream empty- 
ing into the Delaware at Bristol. Rev. Wm. Tennant 
and his two sons built Log College — and native great- 
ness graduated there. 

5 
What provision in the first charter of Princeton 
should be called the Magna Charta of Collegiate free- 
dom? That ''no person can be debarred of any of the 
privileges of said college on account of any speculative 
principles of religion." 

6 
Where was it proposed, in Jan. 1896, to erect a 
monument to James W. Marshall, who first discovered 
gold in California, Jan. 24, 1848? Near Glenmore, Mer- 
cer Co., where he was born — the residents of Hope- 
well starting the movement by forming the "J. W. Mar- 
shall National Monument Association of New Jersey." 

7 
What Camdens on the globe besides the one op- 
posite Philadelphit? In Wilcox Co., Ala.; in Ouachita 
Co., Ark.; in Kent Co., Del.; in S. E. Georgia; in 
Knox Co., Me.; in Ray Co., Mo.; in Oneida Co., N. 
Y. ; in N. Carolina and S. Carolina; in Preble Co., O.; 
in Canada and New South Wales, besides Camden Road 
and Camden Town in London, England. 




rJO HISTORICAL HAND HOOK OF NHW JKRSKV. 

1 

Which schools of medicine were engaged in the U. 
S. Senate, in Jan. 1896, in dosing out tlie Monroe Doc- 
trine to foreign nations? The Allopathic, represented 
by Dr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, and the Homoeopathic 
])v Dr. Sewell. of N. J., and Dr. Gray, of Delaware. 

2 
Where is a watch (French repeater. Huntington 
case, imported in 1785) once owned and pawned by 
Aaron Burr? In Princeton College. It was pawned in 
1830 to a N. J. broker for $30, and the ticket given to 
one who gave it to the college. 

3 
What item suggestive of England's greed appeared 
in a London paper about the time of the Venezuelan 
affair of 18%? That "the Governor of Jersey, accom- 
panied by a few tnembers of the states" was inspecting, 
with a view to its occupancy by England, a rocky islet 
claimed by France near the isle of Jersey, in the British 
Channel. 

4 
How far was it cstimaled that the OOO.OOO passengers 
daily carried in 1890 by the New York "L" roads would 
extend "in columns of fours"? From New York City 
to Trenton, N. J. 

5 
How often is N. J. without a govcriKir lor IJ hours? 
Once in three years; from midnight till the following 
noon, when inauguration occurs. Meantime the Presi- 
dent of the Senate i.s acting Governor — unless the Gov- 
ernor I''lect. as has been done, should be sworn in. 

6 

What railroad short distance speed record led the 

world, up to Jan. 1, 1890? That made April 21, 18!»:). on 

the Camden and Atlantic, between Camden and Atlantic 

City (58.3 miles) in l-')^ minutes, or 70.5ii miles an hou-. 

7 
When, for the first time in 3(1 years prior to 1890. 
and for the second time in New Jersey's history, was 
the Governor and both houses of the Legislature Re- 
publican? Jan. 11. 18iH). on the accession of J. W. 
(jriggs. the first instance being in ISO.'i (I. when Marcus 



THINGS NEW AND OLD, 127 

L. Ward, with a majority of 2,789 (Griggs 27,000 ma- 
jority) became Governor. In 1896 18 out of 21 Senators 
and 43 out of 60 Assemblymen were Republican in 
politics. 

What are the points, places or towns nearest the 
extremes in length of the State? 

2 
Through which counties and near which cities and 
towns would the line marking the longest length of the 
State run? 

3 
What points on Delaware River would mark the 
shortest distance across Central New Jersey and 
through which counties and near which towns would 
that line run? 

4 
Where are other Patersons than the one on Passaic 
River? One in Cape Colony, Africa; one in New 
South Wales; besides Patersonia, Paterson River and 
Paterson's Inlet, in or near New Zealand. 

5 

Where is Jersey County? In Illinois, at the junc- 
tion of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers and Jersey- 
ville, a town of 4,000 population, is in Jersey Co., 34 
miles N. W. of St. Louis. 

6 

W^here is Jersey Shore, so called? In Lyconing 
Co., Pa., on the West branch of the Susquehanna; in 
1890 it was a borough of 2,000 inhabitants. 
7 

Whence the word Hoboken, given the seaport of 
Hudson Co., and seat of Stevens' Institute of Tech- 
nology? From the Indian word Hopoghan — but now 
one-fourth of its inhabitants are German, whose attach- 
ment to Jersey City is very close. 
8 

When did N. J. have its "home-grown" tea? Dur- 
ing the Revolution, when the leaves of the Buckthorn 
shrub, Redroot (also found in the Western States), were 
used as a substitute and known as ''New Jersey Tea." 



128 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF XF.W JERSEY. 

1 

How many Princetons, besides the one where 
Princeton College was founded in 174(J. do Gazeteers 
name? In Gibson. Co.. Ind.; in Bureau Co.. 111.; in 
British Columbia: in Caldwell Co., Ky.; in Washing- 
ton Co.. Me.; in Massachusetts; in Mille Lac Co.. 
Minn.; in Mercer Co.. Mo. and in Green Lake Co.. 
Wis. — towns ranging in population from 1-")<m) to 4<Min, 
and in altitude from 1<mi to 1.(j.j»> feet. 
•) 

What other Trentons besides the one first settled 
in Mercer Co. in 108<»? Trenton in Ontario Co., Can., 
at the mouth of the river Trent; also in Dade Co.. Ga. : 
in Clinton Co.. 111.; in Ouachita Parish. La.; in Wayne 
Co.. Mich.; in Grundy Co.. 111.; in Gibson Co.. Tenn.; 
besides Trenton Falls, a summer resort, with six cata- 
racts and descents of .'312 feet within tw^o miles, in 
Oneida Co.. N. Y. 

3 
Whence the origin of the word Trenton, which sig- 
nifies a ton. or town, on the Trent? From the Trent, a 
rives ITo miles long, flowing through the center of Eng- 
land. Its affluents bear these monosyllabic names: 
Dove. Sow. Soar. Idle. Tame and Turn. 

4 
What was New Brunswick (so named in 1714. with 
royal charter in 1730) called when first settled, in 1G81? 
Prigmore's Swamp. 

5 
What was the Indian name for Passaic? Actjuack- 
anonk. 

G 
Why has Paterson (founded in 17!'l antl incur- , 
■porated in IHod) been called the "Lyons of America"? / 
Because, like Lyons in Southern France, famed for her / 
silk industry. 

How many miles would a i)erson travel in follow- 
ing the extreme boundaries of the State and how much 
of that distance could be made by land? 

s 

Where is the geogra])hioal center of Xew jersey? 



THINGS NEW AND OI.'D. 129 

1 

In which County was the center of population of 
N.J. in 1890? 

2 
How far north ni N. J. does the persimmon grow? 
The Lat. 40°, 44'. 

3 
Oi what material is Trinity Church, N. Y.. built? 
Brown sandstone from N. J. quarries. 

4 
What is the temperature of Lakewood, embosomed 
in the pines, distant say 10 miles from the sea? About 
12 degrees above that of N. Y. City. 
5 
How thick is the broad belt of old red sandstone, 
running across the State from Jersey City to Trenton? 
About 14,000 feet, so geologists say; and her mineralo- 
gist's claim for N.J. about 160 different kinds of mineral. 

6 
What species of Magnolia is found along the N. J. 
coast? Magnolia glauca. 

7 
What Newarks other than the great one in N. J.? 
The greatest malting town in England — famous for 
a castle where King John died in 1216, and also a New- 
ark of over 15,000 inhabitants in Licking Co., O., a coal 
and oil refining center. 

8 
How much above tide level is the largest fresh 
water lake (Hopatcong. one to five miles in extent) in 
the State? About 914 feet, and Green Lake, in Morris 
Co., is 1.044 feet above the sea. 

9 
How is the general drainage of N. J. divided? The 
•ocean drains ahout ;j,900 square miles, Delaware Bay 
1,000, Delaware River 2,400, and Hudson River 252 
square miles. 

I'O 
What water supply comes to northern N. J. from 
the Passaic and its affluents, the Rockaway. Pompton, 
etc.? Over 300 million gallons daily. 



1:50 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JKRSF.V. 

1 

How much has X. J. spent a year for several years, 
in geological surveys? About $8,000. 
2 
What was the entire expense to N. J. <)f the war of 
ISdl-o? $-J.8!U.384.!»!l. 

3 
When will the last installment ()\ the State debt 
(sT.io.loo in 18!>4) fall due? In Jan. l!>o_'. 
4 
What, for years, has been the only individual tax 
in N. J.? One, averaging $5 for each child between tive 
and eighteen years, in the State, for the support o{ 
schools. 

5 
What Tory paper published in New York April 22, 
1773 to 1783, bore N. J. in its title? "Rivington's New 
York Gazetter", or "Connecticut, New Jersey. Hudson's 
River and Quebec Weekly Advertiser." 
G 
When occurred the Battle of Springfield? June 23, 
1780, when the town was burned by 5. 000 British, who 
lost 300 men to the Americans, who tied to the Short 
Hills. <)0 men. 

I 
How many men did it take Aug. 18. 1770. to capture 
all there was of Jersey City — then called Paulus Hook? 
About 300, under Major Lee. who took lo!' prisoners. 
8 
To whom was the site of Cincinnati. ( ).. allotted in 
1787. by the purchasers of a million acres there? 
Matthias Denman, Robert Patterson and John Tilson. 
of New Jersey. 

[) 
Who, th.at fought at Trenton, first obtained rank a> 
Commodore in the .American Navy? Thomas Read 
(1740-178.')), who commanded the frigate "George Wash- 
ington." 

10 
What was the home of the Booths when the Salva- 
tion .Army Schism of Feb. i8!M; occurred? At Mont 
Clair. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 181 

1 

Why was a line, drawn from Little Egg Harbor to 
a point — Lat 41°, 40' — on the Delaware, a most im- 
portant one from 1676 to 1702? Because it was the 
"divisional line" — made by England and its grantees 
between East and West Jersey. 
2 

What old relics are in possession of the Episcopal 
Church, founded at Shrewsbury in 1738? A commun- 
ion service, the gift of Queen Anne, and a prayer book, 
presented by Gov. Wm. Franklin. 
3 

How old are the Episcopal Church Records at 
Sherewsbury? Over 205 years (1689), and George 
Keith, the Ex Quaker, who fixed the line between East 
and West Jersey, figures in them. 
4 

Whence the origin of Shrewsbury? After a place 
of same name in England, whence the first settlers 
came in 1664, after they had tried Connecticut and Long 
Island. 

5 

What ancient N. J. Coast resort is pronounced more 
lovely than any place between Florida and Maine? 
Mount Mitchell, which, with Deal Beach near Long 
Branch, was known in 1693 and have been "resorted to" 
for over a century. 

6 

What traditional reminder of Capt. Kidd is seen 
at Leedsville? The grave of one of the pirate's sup- 
posed partners, who, to quiet his soul, gave his house 
and farm to the Episcopal Church. Peace to his ashes! 
7 

How much was paid the Indians for the site of 
Eaton — so named after its earliest settlers? A barrel 
of cider. Part of Kidd s "treasure" — in "cob" or 
square dollars — is said to be buried there. 
8 

Which cities are the chief contributors, in num- 
bers, to the summer resorts of Monmouth and Ocean 
counties? New York and Philadelphia, with "tourists" 
transient from elsewhere. 



132 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

What names survive to indicate the original paten- 
tees under Governor Nichols to the Monmouth Patent? 
Boune. Grover, Holmes, Stout. Sylvester. Tilton. 
2 

At whose suggestion was Monmouth Co. named? 
That of Col. Lewis Morris, whose family estate was in 
Monmouthshire, Eng., but his X. J. property was at 
Tintern. 

3 

How long was the cap and gown required to be 
worn, at prayers, by Princeton students? From 1802 
to 1878 — 76 vears. 

4 

When was "the champion bareback rider" initiated 
into the I. O. O. F. at Long Branch, as reported in 
New York papers? March 1896. 
5 

How much did the "Wizard of Menlo Park" re- 
ceive for his first saleable, or profitable, invention, the 
Stock Exchange Ticker? About s4<:>.0(.Mt. 

6 
When did Essex Co. lose its oldest constable, who, 
at the age of 76, had served 42 years? March 1896. 
< 
What, according to the State Census of 1895. was 
the population of N. J.? 1.672.942. 
8 
When was a gold necklace, a foot long, washed 
ashore at "Povertv Beach" near Cape Mav? In March 
1896. 

9 

How long was a needle in the body of a Clayton. 
N. J. woman, without hurting her. before it came, in 
March 1S96. to surface on her scalp? About 28 years, 
having made its way from foot to head. 
10 

When did the press mention "an opossum hunt in 
a Jersey church", at New Brunswick? In March 1896. 
when also a mother and daughter celebrated each their 
silver wedding at same time in Elizabeth. 



THTXGS XEW A3fD OLD. 133 

1 

How long did it take to settle in couiz 2. clsim of 
Elizabeth. X. T.. boys, who in Ang^. ls*r;. :G--d a 
of $77-5? Ten years, when liie 5*nr. -was e>q.rally 
. - i among the five bc«ys. then nen gr: wn. 
o 

.Vhen did the_"24th Pres: !^'- - _ - c — in 

Essex Co.. in 1<3,. have his li. 

ISi^l — -Irl years after the : r _ . .:i a 

X. Y. law otnce were f4 for €:2.ch -3:ind pan "i^: a year 
But Srerher -:vas no hioger a part of his rLarre. 

cleanliness is next to s:/ -- : - By sen-iing home, 
in Msrch 1>^ ab«:ktn: , ; to be scoured. In 

: ■' - ' :--:'- : ri:: : ut" the teachers. 

-r 

-::. -:_ ^■-•.-^_-_ ;:ii Terxiiory help to divorce two 
rr:::: r:.: Xew Terseymen? In ISV^^. 
5 
At whose command did ""God's American Volnn- 
:eers" first meet at Xewark in March l.:^5r Ballingron 
Booth — :he h-x. Saivationisn 
6 
\\"hat mixed prosperity was manifesx in Marcli 
IS^ at Prospertown? The Homer vs. Homer Ads, 
which Ohio papers c-\''-ei "Xew Jersey's Xew Wo man " 
I 
\\'hen. in the "Jonmal of the Gov. and Cotmcil" 
f.-»es ".\mbov "perth" " change to "'Perth* Ambov"? 
Sept. -2S. lt>?2. 

^^^lat model Exhordinni did "Teren:iah Ras^e, 
EsQ.". Groverr and Prop^" leave in lrS«S for the mes- 
sages of fumre Governors of Xe >^ "^rrf; ~ ' f^^'::Ie- 
~e^. : The first work of the 'c- en 
:..'-'.ed for the caring of a distenip; .-e 
r.d repell all \-enemous humours ;r .rt. be- 
muse a disease once 'seated in this Mi. s ranebr 
-•-iraKe. This deserves emilation by y:.: v r are the 
Arefi:"- Fhsicians of our State and the healers of onr 
-ody publick." 



l:U HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY 

1 

What bills passed "both houses" in X. J. Oct. 1«J!»2? 
"For prohibiting selling of strong drink to yf Indians", 
"for a tax for helping to carry on yf warr agst y^ french" 
and "for further encurradgment for y^ killing of 
wolves" — and in 10*J3 "one for establishing school 
masters w^^in this province and one for regulate of 
Lycences for public houses and marriages and take ofif 
v^ Excise, etc." 

•I 

What broad views of his country had a Newark, 
N. J., citizen in 1783? "P. S.. I have been tracing out 
ye Boundaries of y® United States upon some maps 1 
have. It contains an 'amazing' Extent of Territory. 
I am sorry the 'Spaniards' have such a Slice at y^ West- 
ern Extremity." Then the Mississippi River — now 
the Aleutian Islands — our "Western Extremity." 
3 

What rent is specified in a one year lease from "The 
Right Hon'Jle Dame Elizabeth Carteret and the Trus- 
tees of the Right Hon^le Sir George Carteret to the 
Twelve Proprietors for East New Jersey," dated Feb. 
1. 1«)81? "Yielding and paying the 'rent of one' peper 
Corn att the fTeast of St. Michaell, the Archangel, if the 
same be lawfully demanded." 
4 

Where was the chief place of council of that branch 
of the Lenni Lennapes. or Algonquin Indians, which 
fought their way from the West and settled on the Dela- 
ware. Sus(|uehanna. Potomac and Hudson Rivers? On 
the Delaware River. 

o 

What two divisions of this tribe in Xew Jersey? 
The Minsi Dcla wares, north of the Raritan. and the 
Delawares proper. South of that river — both branches 
extending over into Pennsylvania. 
G 

What portion of the U. S. Bank money — |!'28,- 
000.000 (loaned to '1<\ states) — for which the U. S. had 
no use or place or safe keeping, was loaned on call to 
N. J. in 1837? $7(!4.(i7<>. and its return was talked of in 
1805. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 135 

1 

Who was among the first to greet Lafayette, when 
he landed with his son, G. W. Lafayette, at Staten Is- 
land, N. J., Aug. 15, 1824? Napoleon's brother, Joseph, 
then living at Bordentown. 
2 

Which was the first English vessel to land on the 
West Jersey Coast with immigrants? The "Griffith", 
with Fenwick and a few Quakers aboard, in 1675. Fen- 
wick named the creek which he ascended Salem, and 
Salem it is. 

3 

What was the forerunner of the College of N. J. at 
Princeton? "Log College", of Rev. Wm. Tennent, at 
Nehanning, in operation for 20 years. He was a great 
scholar and linguist. 

4 

How do the colleges of N. J. rank as to date with 
those of other states? Harvard (Cong.) founded 1637; 
Wm. and Mary (Epis.) 1693; Yale (Cong.) 1701; Prince- 
ton (Pres.) 1746; University of Pennsylvania 1746; Co- 
lumbia (Epis.) 1754; Brown (Bap.) 1764; Rutgers 
(Ref. D.) 1766; Dartmouth (Cong.) 1769, etc. 
5 

How many of the 152 College Fellowships in 1895 
were offered by Princeton? Ten. 
6 

What was the first white man's road in New Jersey? 
It was the Dutch road from New Amsterdam to the 
Delaware and extended from Elizabethtown to near 
New Brunswick. The river was forded near Trenton 
and New Brunswick. Prior to 1707 an express wagon, 
carrying produce, etc., ran from Philadelphia to New 
York. 

7 

Who devised the first mail system? Gov. John 
Hamilton, in 1694. Hamilton sold his mail patent to 
England. In 1729 there was one mail a week, and in 
1764 three mails a week, between New York and Phila- 
delphia. Relays of horses every 20 miles. In 1791 the 
N. J. Postol^ces were Newark, Elizabeth, Princeton, 
Trenton, Rahway, and New Brunswick. 



136 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

What places became early rivals of N. J. in the 
milling business? Philadelphia, Lancaster and Wil- 
mington — but N. J. long led in wheat and flour ex- 
portation. 

2 

What was the fare, in 1781, by "stage wagon" from 
Elizabethtown to Philadelphia? "Forty shillings in 
gold or silver, and the like sum for 150 weight of 
baggage." 

3 
Which was the first Canal Company chartered in 
N. J.? One in 1800 to improve the navigation of Salem 
Creek. 

4 
What equalizing work is Old Ocean doing at Long 
Branch and Sandy Hook? Taking about three feet 
from one and adding them to the other, every year. 
4 
What is the general shape of "the Pines", which 
cover one-third of N. J.? Triangular, being 50 miles 
wide at Delaware Bay and extending from Long 
Branch about 115 miles along the coast. The cranberry 
swamps, which produce so much of the country's crop, 
are among the Pines. 

5 
WHiat nicknames were given the Tories to ofifset 
"the Jersey Blues"? The Greens — or "Jersey Greens. '^ 
6 
What places were once terrorized by Tory refugees 

— as much as Armenia was in 1894-5 by the Turks and 
Kurds? Shrewsbury, Freehold and the region back of 
Long Branch. These pillagers took refuge in the Pines 

— and sold their booty to confederates in New York. 

7 
How long was the capital of the U. S. in N. J.? 
At Princeton from June 30, 1783 to Nov. 20, 1783, and 
at Trenton from Nov. 1784 to Jan 1785. 
8 
How was New Jersey honored during the World's 
Fair — Columbia Exposition — Naval review, April 27, 
'93, at New York? By having the American tTag raised 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 137 

on the Neversink Highlands — the most prominent 
point first seen by our Naval guests from the Old 
World. 

1 
Who is supposed to have discovered the Jersey 
Shore in 1524? Jean Verregano. a native of Florence, 
who having "determined to make discoverie of new 
countries, departed in the Dolphin from the dishabited 
rock by the Isle of Madeira". Jan. 17, 1534, and "discov- 
ered a new land never before seen of any man either 
ancient or modern." From New Jersey he is thought 
to have coasted South, thence back to New York 
Harbor. 

2 

What patriotic incidents attended the raising "The 
Banner that Welcomes the World" on the Neversink 
Highlands April 27, 1893. at the time of the great Naval 
Review? The flagstafT, 135 feet high, was erected, by 
the Lyceum League of America, 30,000 members. First 
the "Paul Jones'' flag was raised by Mrs. Stafford, a 
descendant of Paul Jones. This was lowered and the 
fraternal flag given by the League was raised amid 
salutes from war vessels, etc. 
3 

Who erected the first Steam Engine in N. America? 
Josiah Hornblower, of Anglesea, Eng.. at the Schuyler 
Copper Mine, near Newark, N. J., in 1747. In 1794 he 
built another engine at *he same place. 
4 

How did the debt of N. J., in 1890. compare with 
that of some other states? N. J., $1,596,300, that of 
Illinois, Kansas and Iowa being less (Nebraska, no 
debt), and that of Mississippi, Minnesota. !\lichigan,. 
New York, Ohio. Indiana. Missouri and Pennsylvania 
being more — the latter amounting to $13,856,971. 
5 

What was the taxable wealth of N. J. in 1890, as 
compared with some other states? N. J., $565,506,687; 
that of Mississippi, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and Ne- 
braska being less, and that of Missouri. Illinois. Michi- 
gan. Indiana. Pennsylvania. Ohio and New York being, 
more in that order. New York being $3,014,591,372. 



138 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY, 

1 

How large was the iron product of 1873 in Sussex, 
Passaic, Morris and Warren counties? 665,000 tons. 
2 

What the fruit products of N. J. in 1890? Over 
three million dollars, of which orchards gave one and 
one-half million dollars, and the farms of the State 
produced $45,000,000. 

3 

When were some of the older cities and towns 
started or settled? Bergen, 1617; Middletown (six 
families), 1648; "Elizabethtown Associates" buy the site 
1664. Shrewsbury settled 1664; Newark and Piscata- 
way, 1666; Woodbridge, 1667-8; Bergen chartered and 
Hoboken (1776 acres) bought 1668; Salem settled June 
1675; Perth Amboy Fenton iron mills 1676; Burling- 
ton laid out 1677, incorporated 1693; Salem and Co- 
hansey "in lots" 1678; Trenton 1680; Newton 1681; 
New Brunswick 1681; Camden 1684; Salem incorpor- 
ated 1695; Kaigns Point 1696; Chester, Mendon, Mill- 
Brook, Randolph 1713; Rahway 1720; Deckertown 
1734; German Valley 1740; Newton 1750; Belvidere 
1755; Hope 1769. 

4 

Which early governor had a ''life interest" in N. J,? 
Barclay, who according to the "Fundamental Conces- 
sions" (1684), was appointed "for all the days of his 
life", and his heirs tried to hold over. 
5 

What was the penalty, when N. J. was young, for 
destroying a neighbor's property? To return fourfold 
and take a dose of imprisonment. 

6 

What instance of the Legislature of N. J. meeting 
for two years at the house of the Governor? In 1755-7, 
the closing years of Gov. Belcher's life. 
7 

Where was the last Indian Reservation in N. J.? 
At Edge Billock, Burlington Co.. where on 3,000 acres 
they remained till 1802, when reduced to 60 persons they 
went via Stockbridge, N. Y., to Statebury, Mich. 



I 



THINGS NEW AND OI^D. 139 

1 

Until what time were British flags in the court 
rooms of New Jersey? July 4, 1776 — when royalty 
declined. 

2 
What honored N. J. names adorn the Declaration 
of Independence? Richard Stockton, Abraham Clarke, 
John Hart, Francis Hopkinson and John Witherspoon. 
3 
What was the last act of N. J. to this Indian rem- 
nant at Green Bay? To give them, on their petition m 
1832,' the sum of $3,000 to buy agricultural implements. 
4 
What proud claim made S. L. Southard? That 
''every foot of N. J. soil had been acquired from the 
Indians by fair and voluntary purchase and transfer." 
5 
How many cotton mills in N. J .in 1868? About 
30, with 175,000 spindles. 

6 
Which County had the most and which the least 
population in 1860? Essex, 98,887, Cape May, 7,130. 
7 
What was the age of the oldest and youngest coun- 
ties in 1895? Salem 220 years, Union 38 years — a dif- 
ference in age of 182 years. 
8 
How many more slaves were there in N. J. in 1790 
than in 1860? The difference between 11,423 and 30. 
9 
How many more inhabitants in N. J. in 1860 than 
in 1790? 487,896. In 1890 than 1790? 1,260,794. 

10 

How many administrations has N. J. had since 
1702, or about 190 years? About fifty — including 19 
governors under the Crown. 
11 

Which was the first college charter granted in this 
country by the act of a colonial Governor and Council, 
without' the consent of Parliament? That of Princeton, 
in 1746. 



140 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

When was the 200th Centennial of the first Gover- 
nor (PhiHp Carteret) of N. J.? 1876. 
2 

When was the centennial period of the first Gover- 
nor of N. J. under Constitution? 1876-1890 — Wm. 
Livingston. 

3 

What was the record of a train of seven empty 
Pullmans and engine (total weight 490,000 pounds) 
which "ran" from Jersey City to Philadelphia, Oct. 24,. 
1895? Ninety miles in ninety minutes — or two min- 
utes ahead of previous records. 
4 

Where, in 1895, were two of the four plants of the 
Electric Storage Co. — which controlled all the Electric 
Storage Battery patents in the U. S.? At Gloucester 
and Jersey City. 

5 

What lecture gave such ofTence to the people of 
Paterson that its youth egged the lecturer? That of 
Bill Nye, Oct. 31. 1895. on "Farming Exposed" — but 
the lecturer offended more than the lecture. 
6 

What was the Gubernatorial vote in 1889? Dem., 
138.245; Rep., 123,992; Proh., 6,853. In 1892 — Dem., 
167,257; Rep., 159,632; Pop. 894; Proh.. 7,750. 
7 

What is the language of the first call, by Congress, 
on N. J. for troops. Oct. 9, 1775? "Resolved. That it 
be recommended to the Convention of N. J. that they 
immediately raise 'at the expense of the Continent', two 
battalions consisting of eight companies each and each 
company of 68 privates, of^cered with one captain, one 
lieutenant, one ensign, four sargeants and four cor- 
porals. That the privates be enlisted for one year, at 
the rate of 'five dollars per month', liable to be dis- 
charged at 'any' time, on allowing them one month's 
pay extraordinary. That each of the privates be al- 
lowed, 'instead of a bounty', one felt hat, a pair of yarn 
stockings and a pair of shoes; the 'men to find their 
own arms.' " 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. HI 

1 

What ratio of representation in Congress has N. J. 
had at different times? Under the Constitution, 1789, 
30,000. Under first Census, 1793, 33,000; 1803, 33,000; 
1818, 35,000; 1823, 40,000; 1833, 47,700; 1843. 70,680; 
1853,93,423; 1863,127,381; 1873,131,425; 1883,151,911, 
or seven Congressmen; 1893, ratio 173,901, or eight 
Congressmen. 

2 
What additional favor did John Hancock, Pres. of 
Congress, offer volunteers, Oct. 2, 75? "The Congress 
have agreed to furnish the men with a 'hunting shirt', 
not exceeding the value of one dollar and one-third of 
a dollar, and a blanket, 'provided these can be pro- 
cured'; but these are not to be made part of the en- 
listment." 

3 
When did the Legislature incorporate a New York 
firm, capital $200,000, to make carpeting at Little Falls? 
In 1823. That year DeWitt Clinton came from New 
York by request to inspect the route of the Morris 
Canal. 

4 
When had Paterson 691 dwellings (of which 268 had 
been built in five years) and 4,737 inhabitants? In July 
1824. 

5 
How many of the original 101 members of the Cin- 
cinnati of the State of N. J. are mentioned by Niles' 
Register of July 24, 1824? 22 — scattered in N. J., 
New York, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. 

6 
When did the "Banking Mania" rage in N. J.? 
In 1825, when New York parties subscribed $3,000,000 
in one day for the "N. J. Protective and Lombard 
Bank" — location, on "the river bank opposite New 
York", so sneerers said. 

7 
What N. J. item has Niles' Register of May 28,1825? 
"The State Bank at Trenton, N. J., has exploded. Its 
bills at Baltimore 50 cents discount — and new bills, 
fresh from the 'manufactory', are being strangely 
'forced' into circulation." 



142 HISTORICAI, HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

What evidence that there were "lobby members 
in the Legislature" in 1825? A Bridgetown editor was 
sued for $5,000 for making such a charge. 
2 

What was said of oyster propagation in Perth Am- 
boy Township in 1825? "Were ten companies char- 
tered, each to have a lease of 1,000 acres for 30 years, 
at a rental of $3,000 per annum, the stock could be im- 
mediately filled." 

3 

What was a N. J. railroad brakeman heard to say 
as he opened the car door? "Elizabeth! Elizabeth" ! 
4 

What caused a sunfish, four inches long, to fall 
July 5, 1825, at Kingwood, N. J., more than a mile from 
any stream of water? A violent rain storm. 
5 

In what year was the General Assembly called on 

to make up a $2,000 deficiency of "Princeton"? In 

1825, when the outgo was $6,900 and income $4.!)00. It 

had then 16 scholarships on endowments of $2.50<> each. 

6 

How large a black eagle was killed with difficulty 
at Belvidere in 1825? Length, from tip to tip of wings, 
seven feet three and one-half inches. 

How extensive a fire raged in N. J. in June 1826? 
From "35 miles S. E. of Philadelphia to the sea", cover- 
ing 45.000 acres and destroying both timber and cattle. 
8 

What companion items appear in a Baltimore paper 
of Aug. 19, 1826? Copper mines in Somerset Co., — 
yielding 60 to 65 per cent., with signs of silver and gold 
— and "Stone's steam gun. which he discharges 200 
times a minute." 

9 

When were there 656 justices of the peace and 215 
judges of Common Pleas Courts holding their office by 
appointment for five years in 14 counties of N. J.? In 
1826. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 143 

1 

Who was "Vice President General" of the "Society 
of Cincinnati" in 182G? Col. Aaron Ogden, of N. J. 
2 

How stood the State Treasury in 1825? Receipts, 
$273,339.70; disbursements, $246,193.12; invested in 
stocks, $93,181. 

3 

Why did a vessel with emigrants for New York land 
in 1826 at Amboy? To avoid the New York law, which 
taxed vessels $2 a head for each non-supporting emi- 
grant. A New York sherifif came to Amboy and ar- 
rested the Captain, and N. J. arrested the sherifif. 
4 

When was N. J. soil "perforated like a riddle", ac- 
cording to the press of the time? In 1826 — when 17 
year locusts were ''abroad" in N. J., New York, Vir- 
ginia, etc. "People in the fields can with difficulty 
'hear' each other, they make so much noise." 
5 

How was the Republican Convention, which met in 
Sept. 1826, at Trenton, described? "After some 'ar- 
dent' proceedings and great confusion the parties 'vio- 
lently' separated." Two tickets, the "Adams" and 
''Jackson", ensued. The former received 5,600 and the 
latter 1,000 votes — the Legislature being 41 Adams, 
16 Jackson. "Friendly to the Administration" was the 
political watchword, or password, of the day. 
6 

When were the oystermen from 100 vessels arrayed 
in line of battle — near Bridgeton — in defense of "their" 
territory? In 1826. 

7 

What geographical announcement appeared. May 
26, 1827, in a Baltimore paper? "A great map of N. J. 
ordered by the Legislature, nearly ready for publi- 
cation." 

8 

When was "tar and feathers" suggested as the 
proper remedy "for defaulting bank Presidents", etc.? 
In 1827, when it was announced that "the Franklin 
Bank — a bubble — has blown up." 



144 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NKW JERSKV. 

1 

Where and when did Gen. Adam Badeau. the mil- 
itary secretary of Gen. U. S. Grant, die? At Ridge- 
wood, X. J., March 20. 18llo. aged 04 years. 
o 

Which governor was elected by the Legislature 
'"without opposition"? Williamson, in 182(j. 
3 

How long ago were indictments found for "treating 
voters at elections"? 1827. in Salem Co. 
4 

In how many words did the Governor of 1713 ad- 
dress the two houses, in Legislature assembled? 2(3 — 
or about one to each of the present counties. "I am 
heartily glad to meet you here, after so long an ab- 
sence; and believe you are not sorry to meet me in >(> 
good company. "Reply." "It is with the greatest sat- 
isfaction we meet your excellency in such good com- 
pany now, and hope we shall be favored with it often." 
•J 

Where besides Savannah. Ga. (the E.x Priest Slat- 
tery case) was an attempt made, in \i<*^'i, to prevent free 
speech? At Hoboken. in the case of "Bob. the Infidel." 
tj 

When was Capt. Symmes. the discoverer of 
"Symmes' Hole", laid up at Trenton. N. J.? In 1827. 
when donations were requested, through the Trenton 
True American, that he might reach his Ohio home. 

WhcTi was the first bell made in a nuuild from blis- 
tered bar (cast) steel? May 27. 1S27. at Jersey City. 
8 

What comment was made, in 1827. on the shipment 
of a "br<iad-cloth power loom" from New York "to" 
England? ".Such shii)ment * rom" l\nq:lan(l to New 
York would have been a penal offence." 
!.) 

When was William Wirt (.\tty Gen. of the l\ S.) 
one of the counsel for X. J. in its dispute witli New 
York, on the boundary question? In 1S2S. and Webster 
was to be retained bv Xew York. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 145 

1 

Why was Essex Co. "celebrated", even in 1828. "for 
its opposition to British preferences and principles"? 
Because "from nearness to New York and 'decided 
Whigism' its people had once suffered more from the 
British than any others in the U. S." 
2 

When did the "oyster" bring up the question of 
"State Rights"? In 1829, at Perth Amboy, where its 
citizens had planted beds over which New York claimed 
jurisdiction, and many contests between Jerseymen and 
New Yorkers occurred. 

3 

What comment was made March 21, 1829, on the 
*'N. J. Manufacturing and Banking Co. of Hoboken"? 
^'Another paper manufacturory of New York origin has 
ceased operations and its rags selling at 20 cents on the 
dollar, as marked and stamped on them." 
4 

When was tlie capital ($1,000,000) invested in manu- 
factures at Paterson wholly American according to the 
press of the day? In 1828, when one nail mill made 
850,000 pounds of nails. Paterson had in 1808. 300. and 
in 1820, 1,837 inhabitants. 

5 

What novel auction in which N. J. was interested 
occurred in New York City in Oct. 1828? The sale, in 
lots, of $12,000 in notes of the Franklin Bank of N. J. 
As the first lot brought only 10 cents on the dollar the 
sale was adjourned. 

6 

What ofhce was "Mr. Southard" holding in 1829, 
when elected Attorney General of N. J.? Sec'y of the 
Navy, and living in Washington. The same Legisla- 
ture which called him "a foreigner" when proposed lor 
the U. S. Senate, elected him Atty Gen., said the press. 
7 

What said S. L. Southard to the Essex and Middle- 
sex Committee. March 16, 1829, when commending his 
services as Sec'y of the Navy? "Every Jerseyman re- 
peats with just pride the names of Bainbridge. Law- 
rence, Somers, and others." 



146 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

What aerial item in a Baltimore paper of Oct. 25, 
1828? " 'Madame' Johnson recently made a successful 
ascent from Camden, N. J." 

2 
Why did Sam Patch propose to plunge into Passaic 
Falls — 100 feet — "for the last time" in 1828? To 
prove "that he was 'not' crazy, but governed by philo- 
sophical principles.'' 

3 
Who once refused — after election on joint ballot 
by Legislature in 1829 — to accept the office of Gover- 
nor? G. D. Wall, a "Jackson" man and Atty Gen. of 
the U. S. for N. J. 

4 
What "facilities" had Newark in 1829 for getting to 
New York? A steamboat making four trips a day and 
a score of stages carrying 20 to 25 passengers each. 

5 
Wlien was the monument at Red Bank erected by 
N. J. and Pennsylvania volunteers in memory of "Lieut. 
Com. Christopher Gray, who, with 400 men conquered 
the Hessian Army of 2,000 troops at Red Bank, on the 
22nd of Oct. 1777"? Oct. 22, 1829. 

6 
When was the Canal between "New Ark" and 
Meads Basin — 24 miles — completed? In 1829, and 
"boats laden with wood and stons have arrived from the 
North." 

7 
What was hoped for, in Dec. 1830, when a New 
York paper printed news of the passage, the week be- 
fore, of the Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden 
and .\mboy bills? "Not long before we may reach 
Philadelphia in three or four hours as easily as we have 
gone in ten hours by the steamboat North America to 
Albany." 

8 
What did an .Elizabethtown man, who in 1827-8 
had paid cash for 6oO tons Hax in the sheaf, offer the 
farmers for 1829? $15 a ton for "any (|uaiitity" — within 
25 miles. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 147 

1 

What item in Natural history relating to N. J. ap- 
peared in a Baltimore paper Sept. 26. 1829? "A bear 
seven feet long and three feet high was killed in Free- 
hold Tp.. Monmouth Co.. the ITth ult. It is wondered 
'how he got there.' " 

When did the people of Essex and Middlesex ad- 
dress a letter to get an answer from John Quincy Adams 
on "the slate of the country"? ]\Iarch 4th and 11th. 
1829 — the assembling place being "Peace Tavern. 
Rahwav." 

3 
How many "gentleman idlers'" were there in Xew 
Brunswick in 1829. when it contained 4.435 white and 
558 colored people? 167 — included in the 1.000 males 
above 21 ^-ears old. Other classes: Clergymen 10, 
doctors 8, lawyers 13, merchants 107, mechanics 389, 
laborers 286. and innkeepers 29. 

4 
What reason was given for stopping the U. S. mail, 
containing the "Christian Advocate," etc. — by the 
people of Princeton, one Sunday in April 1829? *'A11 
out of piety." The mail was released on "Monday" 
and allowed to proceed to Washington. D. C. 

5 
Which states besides X. J. had at the close of Jack- 
son's second term a property qualification? Ohio, 
Rhode Island and Connecticut. 

6 
Which governor of N. J. caused Yorktown. Va.. to 
surrender for a "second" time? McClellan. ^lav 4. 
1862. 

How much cotton was consumed by the 17 factories 
and 32.000 spindles of Paterson in 1829? Over two 
million pounds and 1.2O0.000 pounds of yarn were sent 
to New York and Philadelphia. 
8 

How much of the total U. S. postage, SI. 115.227.22. 
for the vear ending March 31. 1829. came from X. J.? 
$19,765.64. 



148 HISTORICAI^ HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

What was the annual income in 1830 of the State 
school fund, then $246,000? About $80,000, said a Bal- 
timore paper. 

2 
When were citizens of N. J. exempt, under debts 
contracted, from imprisonment? July 4, 1830. 
3 
What "boom" had the stock of Camden and x\m- 
boy in June 1830, when the route engineers were ex- 
pected? $19 for $5 paid. 

4 
Where was McCosh, Ex Pres. of Princeton College, 
who died Nov. 16, '94, born? On the river Doon. Ayer- 
shire, Scotland, April 1, 1811. He became Pres. of 
Princeton in 1868, and his body lies in the college ceme- 
tery — one of America's oldest burying grounds. 
5 
What comment did a Baltimore paper make, in 
Jan. 1831, on a war of words in a New Jersey church? 
"We hate to hear of a pair of parsons standing in the 
character of gladiators. Let us have less talk and more 
practice." 

6 
Where was Editor Gilder, of the ''Century " born? 
At Bordentown. in 1844. His first start from a rail- 
road clerk was as reporter for a N. J. country news- 
paper. 

I 
What did the New York Commercial Advertiser of 
Jan. 27, 1831, call the boundary dispute between N. J. 
and New York? "More State Rights" — in allusion to 
South Carolina grievance. ^_^ 

8 
What were the members of Congress — Condict. 
Cooper, Hughes, Randolph and Southard — elected in 
Dec. 1830, called? "National Republicans", and hence 
"friends of the American System." 

What did a person offer in 1822 to construct the 
canal uniting the Delaware and Raritan for? $250,000 
if the right of way was obtained. 



THINGS NEW AND OI.D. 149 

1 

What reference was made to the Bonapartes in 
Niks' Register of Sept. 25, 1830? "The BurHngton (N. 
J.) Chronicle states that Joseph Bonaparte was making 
arrangements to return to France." 
2 

What was "the most interesting part of the exhibi- 
tions of domestic manufactures" at Philadelphia in Oct. 
1831? "That of the American Nankins — "Nankin 
Cotton" — made by Mr. Collet, of Paterson, N. J., from 
cotton grown near Sparta, Ga." "The cotton yielded a 
natural and permanent nankin yellow color." 
3 

When was the deficiency of a N. J. State Treasurer, 
$16,372.02, attributed to "slight inspections" and "com- 
plexity of accounts"? In 1821 — that being the joint 
committee report. 

4 

Where was the Goss Straightline printing press in- 
vented? At Jersey City, by a Mr. Firm; and the Scott 
press hails from Plainfield, N. J. 
5 

How abnormal were trade relations between N. J. 
and Ohio in 1822? Wool was sent from N. J. to Steu- 
benville, O., to be there made into cloth and thence 
shipped to the New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore 
markets. 

6 

Who owned a famous flock of Merino sheep in 
Bergen Co. in 1821? Butterford, a U. S. Senator dur- 
ing Washington's administration. "Homes flock" and 
"Mountain flock" were the divisions — part in Bergen 
and part in Sussex County. 
7 

What did a Legislative Committee of 1820 think 
official salaries and pay of legislators should be reduced 
to? The scale of the year 1814. 
8 

How stood the Joint Legislature of 1820 politically? 
Republicans, 45, and Federalists, 11. Cape May chose 
Federalists. Bergen, Essex, Morris, Sussex, Hunter- 
don, Somerset. Monmouth and Salem went Republican. 



150 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

Who died in Jan. 1821 at Lonp: Pond — aged 100 
years and five months — as "one of the 'first" settlers of 
the State"? Nicholas Teachman. 
2 

Why were railroad passengers between New York 
and Philadelphia driven in hacks April 11, 1895 — from 
Bordentown to Trenton? Owing to high water on the 
Delaware and railroad washouts. Office of Delaware 
and Raritan Canal flooded. No mails or newspapers 
reached Bordentown that day. 
3 

What mineral discovery in Salem Co. in 1820? "A 
large vein of Stone Ochre next in value to the French." 
4 

What was called a "Rarity" in the Elizabeth Town 
N. J. Journal of 1820? "Killed in Westfield on the 23rd 
ult., a wild cat measuring three feet, eight inches in 
length and one foot eight and one-half inches in height, 
and weighing eleven and one-half pounds." 
5 

Why was the $1,000 raised in 1820 by the people of 
Newark for the fire sufferers at Savannah, Ga.. returned 
to the donors? Because the Mayor of Savannah had 
returned the donations of New York, Philadelphia, etc., 
with thanks. 

6 

When did the Newark and St. Louis, Mo., libraries 
exclude O. Wilde's books therefrom? In April 1895. 
7 

What was the "Republican" majority in the N. J. 
Legislature in 1819? In Council. 5; in Assembly, li*. 
Total, 24 — over the "Federals" in both houses. 
8 

What said a Baltimore paper, Aug. 7, 1819, of the 
marl pits of N. J.? "The Township of Middletown, 
N. J., is remarkable for the relics of 'animals and things' 
that may be considered to have existed before the flood." 
In these beds "fragments of 'clay pipes' for smoking 
have been repeatedly found — horn of deer, tooth of 
elephant, thigh of rhinoceros, etc." 



THINGS NEW AND OI.D. 151 

1 

Where had a fire covering 3,000 acres of timber 
been burning Nov. '20, 1819, about five weeks? In the 
Great Swamp, near Springfield. 
2 

How extensive was. the marl belt or zone then (1819) 

believed to be? To extend "from the Hudson to the 

Delaware — from Neversink hills near Sandy Hook, to 

Bordentown and Burlington — two to five miles wide." 

3 

What word came, in 1819, through the magistrates 
of Copenhagen and sundry cities of Germany? "We 
have received a letter from the North American Vis- 
ionary, Capt. Symmes, who will take a journey into the 
interior of the earth, if he can obtain assistance." 
4 

What "send off" did Long Branch receive in the 
New York press of 1819? "The company at this salub- 
rious retreat is represented to be very numerous and re- 
spectable at this season." The regulations: a "white" 
flag hoisted on the beach when ladies might bathe, and 
a "red" flag for gents, were called "military or naval" 
and "due form." 

5 

What was called, up to April 21, 1895, the fastest 
time made, for the distance, in the U. S.? The special 
newspaper train between Philadelphia and Atlantic City 
— 58 and three-tenths miles in 45 minutes — or 76^ miles 
an hour. The fastest mile made in 41 seconds, or 87 and 
eight-tenths miles an hour. 
6 

Who was the father of "Parnell's mother", who 
fell from an assaiflt on the road near her home at 
Bordentown? Rear Admiral Stewart, who, in 1812, 
commanded the U. S. frigate "Constitution" and was 
retired from service in 1862. 
7 

What anti and pro-slavery item appeared June 27, 
1818, in Niles' Register? " 'Slave Trade.' Another 
vessel has been seized at Nev/ Orleans for having on 
board 36 negroes which were received at 'Amboy, New 
Jersey.' " 



152 HISTOKICAI. HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

What press item, referring to the printer "of the 
first quarto Bible ever printed in America" appeared 
April o. 1817? "Died, on the 21st ult.. at BurUngton, 
N. J., Isaac Collins, the oldest printer in the State." 
2 

Which states besides N. J. had. in 189-"). annual 
legislative sessions? New York. Rhode Island. Massa- 
chusetts and South Carolina. 
3 

Whicli two officers, leading the advanced guard 
of the second column at the Battle of Trenton, were 
wounded — when rushing forward to drive the enemy's 
artillerists from their guns? Capt. Wm. W^ashington 
and Lieut. James Monroe — later Pres. of the U. S. 
4 

How did a Rahway inventor of 181(3 hope "to save 
much fuel and horseflesh"? By his "boat propelled by 
weights with great velocity." "An age of invention", 
said the press at the time. 

5 

What was seen at Cape May in Feb., during the 
cold winter of 1817 — when the James River at Rich- 
mond was bridged with ice, and ice on the Potomac, at 
Alexandria, was 13 inches thick? "As far as the eye 
can reach at sea from Cape May Island, no water can 
be seen. Thousands of wagon loads of dead cod fish 
strew the seven mile beach and ducks are so poor and 
impotent that a dog can take 300 or 4<>0 in a day." 

How long ago did the N. J. Legislature autlujrizc 
the cutting of a canal through Squam Beach, connect- 
ing the ocean with Cape May Bay, shortening the dis- 
tance between New York and Philadelphia? In 1816. 
7 

How long ago had N. J. an astronomer who could 
tell the New Jersey Journal all the visible and invisible 
eclipses, solar and lunar, that could "happen" in a 
century? 1811 — and of the 238 solar he made 43 visible 
and li^n invisible, and of the 152 lunar, hv made 7<) visible 
and 7n invisible. Total, 300. Of tin- 7t? visil)l<.- lun:ir. 
34 would be total, he said. 



THINGS NEW AND OT.D. 153 

1 

How long- ago was Mt. Mitchell, of the Neversink 
Hills, named and saluted from a Revenue Cutter with 
three cheers. In 1816, when D. A. Mitchell, of New 
York, and Capt. Partridge, of West Point, and others 
went from New York and ascertained its elevation to 
be 272 feet. 

2 

Where did the "Alerino Society of the Middle 
States" hold its first meeting, Oct. 5, 1811? On the 
Caldwell farm, near Haddonfield, N. J., where, besides 
men, 300 full blooded merinos testified to the congen- 
iality of N. J. soil, climate, etc., for them. 
3 
What was meant, over 200 years ago, when certain 
hill country in N. J. was said to be stony? It was full 
of iron. 

4 
When had "the beautiful town of Newark long been 
famous for its extensive manufacture of leather"' and 
"the delicacy and perfection of its 'cider', which has 
often been passed on 'knowing' Europeans for 'Cham- 
pagne Wine' "? In 1814. said the press of that day. 
5 
Which Governor of N. J. assisted, between 1740- 
1750, in getting up the Lewis Evans (Phila.) Map of 
1755 — showing the Lake Erie country? Gov. Pownall. 
6 
How long ago was rice raised in N. J.? In 1698 — ■ 
when tar, turpentine and whale oil w^ere among the pro- 
ductions. 

7 
What did the 20 cotton mills, with 32.500 spindles, 
in Essex Co., in 1814-15, make per week? 300,000 
pounds of yarn, which spun into cloth at 40 cents a 
yard, gave $36,000 a week, or $1,673,000 per annum. Its 
10 woolen mills, with 3,600 spindles, made cloth worth 
$650,000 per annum. 

8 
When was the N. J. Legislature changed from "Fed- 
eral" to "Republican"? In 1813 — thus making the 
executive a Republican official. 



154 HISTORICAL HAND HOOK OF NKW JKRSKV. 

1 

When did Brig. Gen. Joseph Bloomfield. in com- 
mand at New York, order two doctors and Hon. S. L. 
Mitchell "to proceed to Schooleys Mountain, on the 
Musconetunk, in N. J., and examine whether any silica- 
stone is to be found suitable for the manufacture of 
faints"? July 25. 181-2. and Aug. 2. 1812. they "con- 
gratulated all the friends of the U. S. that they are at 
this moment as independent of foreigners for the ma- 
terials of 'gun flints' as they are for iron, lead and salt- 
petre." 

2 

What happened in Dec. 1816, to a stage on the 
Philadelphia and Trenton line? It took fire and the 
six passengers had a narrow escape. "Cause."' A hot 
brick on the stage floor to keep a gentleman warm. 

3 
How long ago did the Legislature grant the re- 
quest of a N. J. Township to change its name to Law- 
rence of "Don't give up the ship" fame? 1816. and the 
press of the day contrasted it with the act of Massa- 
chusetts in naming a Township "Wellington" at the 
moment when threatened with his "invincibles." 
4 
Which counties led in sheep in 1814? Sussex. 46,- 
000; Burlington, 26.000; Morris. 22.000. 
5 
Which counties led in 1814 in "pure Merino"? 
Gloucester. 1436; Essex. 575; Morris. 386. 
6 
What is the origin of Lamberton (where U. S. 
Explorer Z. M. Pike was born June 5. 1779)? Lam- 
aton. corrupted frt)m the Indian word "Alanialunk." 

7 
How was the U S. Direct Tax of 1813 apportioned 
(cents omitted) among counties in N. J.? Bergen. $7,- 
027; Essex. $0.90!); Somerset. $7,233; Middlesex. $9.- 
182; Sussex, $11,022- Morris. $8,818: Hunterdon $1-2.- 
251; Burlington. $11,929; Gloucester. $8,823: Mon- 
mouth. $10,204; Cumberlan<l. $1,357; Salem. $6,528; 
Cape Mav. $1,584. Total. $108,871. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 155 

1 

When were some of the earlier churches in N. J. 
founded? First church (Cong, and Ind.) at Ehzabeth- 
town 1665; Newark "Meeting House" 1668; Friend's 
Meeting Shrewsbury and Pres. congregation in Wood- 
bridge 1670; Meeting house built Shrewsbury 1672; 
Salem Friends' Meeting 1675; First Baptist, Cape May 
1675; Pres. Meeting House, Woodbridge 1675; Bur- 
lington Friends' 1677; Amboy (Friends) 1680; Ches- 
terfield Meeting 1680; Meeting House, Freehold 1683; 
Epis. Church, Perth Amboy 1685; Friends', Lower 
Alloways Creek 1685: Middletown First Baptist Church 
1688; Piscataway Second Baptist 1689; Cohansey Bap- 
tist 1690; Fairfield (Pres.) 1697; Friends' "brick" meet- 
ing house, Salem 1700; Hopewell Epis. and Raccoon 
Swedish 1704; Elizabeth Epis. 1706; Greenwich Pres. 
1711; Cape May Baptist 1712; New Brunswick jlJutch 
Reformed 1714; Hopewell Baptist 1715; Penn's Neck 
Swedish 1717; Westfield Pres. 1727; Union Pres. 1730; 
Deerfield Pres. church, built 1737; New Providence 
Pres. 1737; Trenton Friends 1740; Rah way Pres. 1740; 
Pittsgrove Pres. 1741; Kingswood Baptist, Minisink 
and Walpeck 1742; Hightstown Baptist and Springfield 
Pres. 1745; Scotch Plains Baptist and German Valley 
church 1747; Freasburg Lutheran 1748; Logtown Pres. 
1750; Morristown Baptist 1752; Salem, the First Meth. 
odist, 1784. 

2 

When was "Wampum" (i. e. Indian money, made 
out of clam and other shells and strung like beads -^n a 
string, or belt) the chief currency of New Jersey? In 
1673, when, supposing that its scarcity made it low, 
the Gov. and Council of New York made a proclama- 
tion in Albany, Delaware and Long Island that six 
white and three black wampums, instead of eight and 
four, should pass for a penny — two cents. 

8 

How did N. J. rank among the states in cattle in 
1890? The 14th, Texas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, New 
York, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nebraska, Indi- 
ana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, outranking 
N. J. with her 250,000 head. 



10(» HISTORICAI, HAND HOOK OF NKW JKRSKV. 

1 

How lonj? ago dul an iiuciuivc New Jersey man 
sugj^est a lorce pump — cost -i^io or :!?4o — fur every 
cotton, paper or other mill, in lieu of fire engines 
manned by Jo or :V' persons, etc.? Julv 2I>. 1811. 
2 

What besides "Xew Cesarea" did New Vorkers tall 
New Jersey, in 1«!7.S? Achter C<j1 — i. e. the t«';itory 
behind, or l)ey<jntl. the Col. or Kill, the Duich lu-ine 
for the channel or l)e<l of a river nr stream. 
3 

When was Amboy named "Perth""? In lo48. in 
honor of a British Karl. The same year a r'crry then 
connected it with Xew 'S'ctrk and Penn-vlvani.i. 
4 

What says <jne of the old settlers writing "from 
Burlington in Delaware river, the Jdth of 8th m( nth, 
1677"? "The country is so good that I do not see how 
it can reasonably be found fault with. The air seems 
very agreeable to our bodies and we have good stom- 
achs to our victuals. Plenty of tish and fowl, good veni- 
son very plentiful and full of gravy. The Indians are 
'very loving* to us. except here and there one with 
liquor in his head." 

5 

What says .-mother colonist in 18(10? "I have seen 
an apple tree from a i)ij)in kernel yield a barrel of curi- 
ous cider, and peaches in such plenty that some people 
took their carts a peach gathering. They are a very 
delicate fruit and hang almost like our onions that are 
tied on ropes. Fruit trees in this c«>untry 'destroy 
themselves" by the very weight of their fruit. Cran- 
berries, much like cherries for color and bigness — ex- 
cellent sauce for venison, turkey, etc. — brought to our 
homes by Indians, who also bring us seven or eight fat 
bucks a day. Neither will the country produce corn 
without labor, nor bread with idleness, else it would be 
a 'brave' countrv indeed." 
6 

What were official salaries in IHSi; »...\<tn,.t. JO 
pounds; speaker. •^: clerk. 5; paid annually, by tax. in 
m<m. V lorn and skins. 



THINGS NEW AND OI.D. 157 

1 

What side scene occurred in N. J. just prior to the 
Declaration that "all men are entitled to Life. Libert}^, 
and the pursuit of happiness"? At Freehold, N. J., 
Feb. 29, 177(i. this Resolution: "That all Slaves. Either 
Negroes, Mulattoes or Others, that Shall Be found 
off their Master's, or Mistress's, premises any time of 
the night after the Daylight is Gone, May Be taken Up 
By any person Whatsoever, and Secured Until a tine 
of ten Shillings Be paid By the Master or Mistress to 
the person taking them up, and in failure of payment of 
Such fine the Slave Shall Be Delivered to the Minute 
Men to be Kept Under Guard Until he Shall Receive 
fifteen Lashes on the Bare Back, for Which the Master 
Shall pay the Sum of four Shillings, provided that Such 
Slaves as have Leave from their Masters in Writing 
Shall not Be Liable to the above penalty." 

2 
What practical reasons did the Legislature of N. J. 
give, May 22, 1683, for an early adjournment? "Con- 
sidering the season of the yeare and the necessity of the 
Representatives of this p'vince to bee at their habita- 
tions, the wether being so wett, by w^h reason their 
Cropps of Corn may be in much Danger to their great 
Damage and Losse w^h possibly may be p'vented by 
their Speedy repaireing home, wherefore the Deputies 
mooves for an Adjournmt of this Assembly till the 
Third Tusday in October next. P. order of the house, 
John Bound."' Now it is "fences" rather than crops 
which hurry legislators home. 

3 

What objection had the Council of N. J. in March 
1683, to fining people for not worshiping God? "3. 
The Bill obligeing 'all' p'sons to worship in public or 
private, or pay 5 d. 'Every' person who has not wit- 
ness of his private worship (w^h is much if he has any) 
must pay 5 d. It seemes 'unreasonable' to take witness 
for private worship." 

4 

What common phrase contains much history? 
"The Jerseys", referring back to the time (1674) when 
there was an "East" and "West" Jersey. 



1")S HISTORIC \L FI AND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

Whence, during Gov. Hamilton's time (1688) were 
the "Deputies" chosen? "Eliza: Toune", "New Bar- 
badoes", "Out Pantacions of Bergen". "Piscataway", 
"Amboy perth", "Shrewsbury", "ffor Newark". "Wood- 
bridge". "Middletowne". "Bergen Corp'ac'on", "Out 
Plantac'cjns and pon Raraton." 
l 

What legal tender law was passed in 1682? Making 
"Mark Newby's coppers", or "Patrick's (Irish) half- 
pence" legal tender in sums of five shillings — on giving 
bond for the redemption of same to the Speaker. 
3 

What happened to non-apprenticed servants com- 
ing to N. J. in 1682? Reciuired to serve four years from 
the time the ship landed and be brought before Court 
to have their servitude fixed by law. On leaving ser- 
vice, without contract, were to have given them ten 
bushels corn, two hoes and an ax. besides clothing. 
4 

Were the Council of N. J., in March 1683. in ad- 
vance of the age. when they thus opposed a Bill for 
compulsory worship? "This Bill enforces people by 
paynes and penaltyes to worship whether their worship 
be true or false; if false, better none than any. Better 
bee silent than offer the Sacrifice of fooles. This Bill 
insinuates as if the first day were holy, w^h the Holy 
Scriptures never said, more than any other — Every 
day his holy to Lord — hee has noe profane Dayes. * * 
Lett every man bee fully persuaded in his owne mind. 
Liberty of Conscience ought to bee p'ferred and Licen- 
tiousness punished." 

5 

What thought a New Jersey patriot of Washing- 
ton, when writing from Newark. April 22. 1783. t(^ Elias 
lioudinot? "But Washington is the Patriot of Patriots. 
Talk of your Catos. y^ Brutus' and y'" Cassius' — they 
an- all nurc I'^ools to him." 
6 

W hat HON el ban(|uet — "a la France" — was given 
at Newark. Dec. 19. '94? A horse-flesh feast to 100 
guests — and a horse meat market there was proposed. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 159 

1 

What brought many Scotch people to the New 
Jersey Colonies? The cruel persecutions attending the 
restoration of Charles II, towards the Scotch, who 
were Presbyterians. 

2 

Wherein were N. J. and Pennsylvania more liberal 
than the other colonies? They gave the poor man a 
better chance to buy a farm, thus anticipating Galusha 
Grow (Pa.) and "Land Bill Allen", of Ohio. 
3 
What does the American Antiquarian Society say of 
the origin of the name "New Jersey"? Named in 
honor of Sir George Carteret, who in England's great 
civil war. had defended the Isle of Jersey, in the British 
Channel. 

4 
What negro legislation is mentioned in the Journal 
of the Gov. and Council of N. J., May 23, 1683? "A Bill 
Entitled an Act Agst trading wth Negro Slaves this 
Day sent to the Deputyes was sent back w^h their Con- 
currence thereto wt^out any Amendmts." 
5 
Who commanded the N. J. Brigade and Union 
Troops held in reserve at the Battle of Bull's Run, July 
15, 1861? Gen. Runyon. 

6 
Who commanded the First Brigade of N. J. three 
year regiments, after the Battle of Bull's Run? Gen. 
Philip Kearney, on whom, for services at the battle of 
Solferino, Napoleon conferred the Cross of the Legion 
of Honor. Col. S. H. Starr commanded the Second 
N. J. Brigade. 

7 
How long has N. J. been a State? 

8 
How long since there were two political divisions 
— E. and W. Jersey? 

9 
Which is the longer interval, that between Philip 
Carteret and Gov. Wm. Franklin, or that between Gov. 
Franklin and the present governor of N. J.? 



IfiU HISTORICAL HAND HOOK OF NEW JERSKV. 

1 

How much money did N. J. raise in public and pri- 
vate subscription, within 30 days after Sumter was hred 
on — to defend the State and Nation? As much as the 
Morris Canal cost, or two-thirds the cost of the Dela- 
ware and Raritan. 

2 

How many persons "crossed the Delaware" for 
other reasons than given by Gen. Washington? About 
4,500 from Philadelphia to Camden — to get married — 
on the non-debatable ground of New Jersey. 
8 

What frontage has Monmouth Co. on the ocean? 
Less Sandy Hook, about 22 miles, and that includes a 
chain of 'V2, or more, watering ])laces. 
4 

What is Monmouth Co. celebrated for? Apple- 
jack, oysters and trotting horses — as Monmouth Park 
race track indicates. 

5 

What region of N. J. is both a winter and a sum- 
mer resort? The Pines, of Monmouth Co. 
6 

What are Navesink Highlands to the ocean trav- 
eler? The first seen on approaching and the last on 
leaving New York. 

7 

What means the word "Navesink"? "Good fishing 
ground", and some descendants of the first purchasers, 
from the Indians, live there still. 
,s 

How old are the ruins of the Dutch summer house 
"Lust and Rust", described by Cooper in his "Water- 
witch", as still to be seen on the Navesink Highlands? 
About 225 years. 



What was one of the earliest names borne by New 
Jersey? New Canarj'. but its Indian name was "Schey 
ichlie." "Nova Cacsarca" was another name, and New 
Jersey was given in honor of Sir George Calvert, one 
of its owners, who was a native and governor of Old 
Jersey. 



THINGS NEW AND OI^D. 161 

1 

\Vlien was the cedar "timber mine", near Dennis- 
ville first discovered? In 1812, and for over 8o years, 
trees have been exhumed from this forest cemetery. 
They are found at depths varying from five to twelve 
and even eighty feet (as at Cape May) by prodding with 
an iron rod — after which a trench is dug and flooded 
with water, which brings the severed trunk to the sur- 
face. Tubs and pails made of this mined cedar have 
done duty for 80 years. Cedar forests buried at vari- 
ous depths are supposed to await future development. 
2 

Whence did Cape May derive its name? From 
Capt. Cornelius Jacolase Mey, who led a Dutch trading 
expedition to Delaware in 1623, and on Timber Creek. 
at Gloucester, built the first Dutch fort (Nassau) and 
settlement. 

:^ 

What is the substance of the deed, or grant, of 
■"New Jersey , dated June 24, 1664, from the Duke of 
York to Sir Geo. Carteret, Lord Berkley and others? 
^'All that tract of land 'adjacent to New England' and 
lying and being to the westward of Long Island and 
Manhattas Island, and bounded on the east by the main 
sea and part by Hudson's River, and hath on the west 
Delaware Bay, or River, and extendeth southward to 
the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of 
Delaware Bay, and to the northward as far as the 
northermost branch of the said bay, or river, of Dela- 
ware, which is in 41 degrees and 40 minutes of latitude, 
and crosseth over thence in a straight line to Hudson's 
River in 41 degrees of latitude, which said tract of land 
is hereafter to be called 'Nova Caesarea' or 'New' Jer- 
sey; and also all rivers, mines, minerals, woods, fish- 
ings, hawkings, huntings, and fowlings and all other 
royalties, profits, commodities and hereditaments what- 
soever to the said lands and premises belonging." 

4 

What prominent man had a 99 year lease on a cop- 
per mine in 1750? Elias Boudinot, of Philadelphia, 
who sent the ore to England from the mine near New 
Brunswick. 



IC.'i HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NKW JERSP:V. 

1 

What powerful corporation held its annual meeting 
for the election of officers at Newark. Jan. 9, 1895? The 
American Sugar Refining Co. — or "Sugar Trust," — 
which in 18!U held a great party in abeyance and shaped 
the tariff policy of the United States. Two other Trust- 
the Tobacco and American Book Co.. hail from Nc 
Jersey. 

2 

Which were some of the earliest settlements in X. 
J.? ''Bergen", whose first settlers. Danes, named it 
after the capital of Norway. "Elizabeth", whose site 
was purchased of some Staten Island chiefs and after- 
wards. Dec. 2. 1664. confirmed by Gov. Nichols to John 
Baker, of New York, and others. "Shrewsbury", set- 
tled in 1664 by immigrants from Connecticut and other 
Darts of New England. "Middletown". first visited by 
Dutch and English, the latter establishing themselves 
in 1666 — wnth accessories from West Long Island. An 
overflow reached Freehold. 
3 

Where was the first iron works in N. J.? Near 
Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co.. where, in 1676. 3.540 acres 
w^ere bought by Lewis Morris, and 60 negroes employed 
in smelting in 1682. The "Lords of Trade". London, 
were asked, in 1714, by the Council and Assembly of 
N. J., "to further its iron interests." 

4 

Where was the Bessemer process "first" tried in 
this country? At the Phillipsburg iron furnace of Peter 
Cooper, who. in 1817. started up the works, which in 
1778 were owned by Royalists and confiscated by Con- 
gress — so as to get its superior steel iron for govern- 
ment use. 

5 

Where were the first wrought iron beams used in 
fire-proof buildings, made? At the iron rolling mills 
of Trenton. 

6 

When (lid the Assembly of N. J., imitating the 
House of Commons, first open its doors to the public? 
Oct. 12. 176!>. 



THINGS NEW AND OI.D. 163 

1 

On whom does New Jersey confer the honor of in- 
venting and running the first steamboat, three years be- 
fore the trial in 1788 by Fulton? John Fitch, a citizen 
of Lamberton, near Trenton, where he made buhets 
and repaired arms for the patriots, till the enemey de- 
stroyed his shop and tools. March 19, 1786, the Legis- 
lature granted him a 14 years' patent on his steamboat 
invention, covering the State. 
2 

How many infantry and cavalry regiments did N. J. 
furnish during the 1861-5 war? Forty, and live bat- 
teries of artillery. 

3 

How many naval enlistments in 1861-5? 4,853. 
4 

How many men did the State furnish in all? 88,- 
305. or 10,000 more than required by the General Gov- 
ernment. 

5 

When was New Jersey's entire electoral vote of no 
avail? In 1813, when she voted for Clinton and Inger- 
soll; in 1837, Harrison and Granger; in 1845, Clay and 
Frelinghuysen; in 1865, McClellan and Pendleton; in 
1869, Seymour and Blair; in 1876. Tilden and Hend- 
ricks; in 1880, Hancock and English, and in 1888. 
Cleveland and Thurman. 

6 

What were some of the chief items in the 1861-5 
war expenses of the State? Advance pay, $60,278; 
transportation, $74,032; barracks, $131,593; camp equip- 
age, $161,163; clerk hire, $135,825; clothing, $889,448; 
horses. $310,420; ordnance. 1499,905; subsistence, $174,- 
290, etc. Total, $2,894,384.99. 
7 

What was the population of the ten counties of E. 
and W. Jersey when the first census was taken in 1737? 
"E.Jersey": Bergen Co., 3,289; Essex, 6,644; Middle- 
sex, 4,261; Monmouth, 5,431; Somerset Co., 3,773. 
Total, 23,398. "West Jersey": Burlington Co., 4,895; 
Cape' May Co., 962; Gloucester. 3,145; Hunterdon, 
5,288, and Salem Co., 5,700. Total, 19,990. 



1»!4 HISTORICAL HANI) HOOK OF NKW JERSKV. 

1 

Where were the first five State miHtary camps lo- 
cated? Camp Perrine, at Trenton; Camp Stockton, at 
VVoocIbury; Camp Frehngluiysen. at Newark; Camp 
Vrendenburg. at Freehold, and Camp Fair Oaks, at 
Flemington. 

•J 

What did Franklin compare the State to. when the 
cities of New York and Philadelphia were attracting 
her "best" young men? "A beer barrel, tapped at both 
ends, with all the 'live beer running into Philadelphia 
and New York." 

:\ 

What the population of the thirteen counties in the 
State in 17!.)0? 184.ia!>. 

4 

Which counties had the extremes of population? 
Cape May Co. the least. J.'iTl: Hunterdon Co. the 
most. 20.153. 

What is the order in years of formation of the dif- 
ferent counties of the State? Salem in iJiTo. Gloucester 
1G77. Bergen and Middlesex in KW2. Somerset lil88. 
Burlington 1>>!)4. Essex. Monmouth and Cape May 
counties in 1710. Hunterdon 1714. Morris 17;V.». Cum- 
berland 1748. Sussex \l-h\, Warren 18J4. Passaic and 
Atlantic in 1n?7. Mercer 1838. Hudson 184'». Camden 
1844, Ocean 18:>(». and L'ni<»n in 18.57. 

(j 
How has the population ranged since the Revolu- 
tion? 1790. white. 184.130. slaves. 11.4-23: 18O0. white, 
2n.l40. slaves. 12,422: 1810. white. 24:>.:>«)2. slaves. 10.- 
851; 1820, white. 277.575. slaves. 7.357; 1830. white, 
320,823, slaves. 2.254; 1840. white. 373.3(Mi. slaves. 074; 
1850. white, 480.555. slaves. 23(5; 1800. white. (572.035. 
slaves. 30; 1870, white. I'nd.oJMI. slaves, none; 1880. 1,- 
131.110; 1800 1,444.!»33. 

Which was the secoiul paper mill in .\merica? 
That built at IClizabeth. X. J., and owned by Saml Brad- 
ford, State i)rinter for New Jersey and New York. The 
first p.i|)cr mill at Roxboro. P.i 



THINGvS NEW AND OLD. 165 

i 
Who have been U. S. Senators from New Jersey? 
Jonathan Ehiier, 1789-1791; Wm. Paterson. 1789-1790; 
P. Dickerson. 1790-1793; John Rutherford. 1791-1798; 
F. FreHnghuysen, 1793-1796; R. Stockton. 1 790-1 799; 
F. Davenport. 1798-1799; J. Schurcman. 1799-1801; 
Jonathan Dayton. 1799-1805; A. Ogden. 1801-1803; 
John Condit. 1803-1809; A. Kitchell. 1805-1809; John 
Lambert, 1809-1815; John Condit, 1809-1817; J. J. Wil- 
son. 1815-1821; Mahlon Dickerson. 1817-1829; S. L. 
Southard, 1821-1823; J. Mcllvaine, 1823-1826; E. Bate- 
man, 1826-1829; T. FreHnghuysen, 1829-1835; M. Dick- 
inson, 1829-1833; S. L. Southard. 1833-1842; G. D. 
Wall, 1835-1841; J. W. Miller. 1841-1853; W. L. Day- 
ton. 1842-1851; R. F. Stockton, 1851-1859; Wm. 
Wright. 1853-1859; J. R. Thompson. 1853-1862; R. S. 
Field, vacancy; J. C| Ten Eyck. 1859-1865; Wm. 
Wright. 1863-1869; F. F. FreHnghuysen. 1867-1877; J. 
P. Stockton. 1869-1875; T. F. Randolph. 1875-1881; 
J. R. McPherson. 1877-1883; Wm. J. SeweH, 1881-1887; 
J. R. McPherson. 1883-1889; Rufus Blodgett, 1887-1893; 
J. R. McPherson, 1889-1895; James Smith, Jr., 1893- 
1899; Wm. J. Sewall. 1895-1901. 

2 
Who was the first New Jersey printer? James 
Parker, in 1751, at Woodbridge. 

3 
Which were the first periodicals? "New American 
Magazine", printed by Parker, and "New Jersey Ga- 
zette. 1791, (by Collins, at Burlington), a weekly 14x9 
inches; price. 26 shiHings a year. 

4 
Where did slave-ships land in the "good old" 
times? At Perth Amboy. then the distributing point. 
Children of slave parents were made free by law in 
1820. but there were still 674 slaves in the State, as late 
as 1840. 

5 
What great feat for 1791 did Isaac Collins, the 
printer, perform? He printed a quarto Bible — like 
"Oxford edition" — of 984 pages with index concord- 
ance, etc., 3,000 copies, four dollars each. 



166 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY 

1 

What of the first brick manufactured? Their size 
and quaHty in 1683 was regulated l)y law. The Friends 
Meeting House, built at Salem in 17u0,and costing about 
416 pounds, is the first brick house of record. A 
Quaker church built of brick in 173!>, was still standing 
a few years ago. 

2 

What industrial corporation was Alexander Hamil- 
ton identified with in 1791? The "Society for the Es- 
tablishment of Useful Manufactures'', capital $200,000, 
shares $400 each. It founded Paterson and had the 
monopoly of the Passaic water fall's power. The falls 
have a descent of 50 to 72 feet. Its mill manufactured 
yarn in 1791, and calico in 1794. 
3 

What of glass making? The Germans had a fac- 
tory in 1748 .at Freasburg — and the "Wistar Glass 
Works", in Salem Co., were in operation in 1765. 

4 
Where does the U. S. Navv get much of its canvas? 
At the duck factories of Paterson. 
5 
Who started the manufacture of silk from the Co- 
coon? John Rawle, of England, at Paterson in 1840. 

G 

What of the largest cotton thread Co. in the U. S.? 
It was started in Newark in 1865, at a cost of $750,000. 
and is called ''The Clark Thread Co." 
7 

When did the name "Jersev Blues" originate? In 
the King George war of 1745-8, when New Jersey's 
soldiers, as in the 12 other colonial campaigns, were 
clad in "blue." But the color did "ncit" hITcm thrir 
valor. 

8 

What unofficial legend is on the Seal «>l N. J., 
adopted in 1776? Liberty and Prosperity — though of 
right entitled to both. "Three" phnighs and Ceres on 
a silver shield, betoken her agricultural — or rather 
horticultural — Garden State — pr()si)erity. 



THINGS NEW AND OIvD. 



16/ 



Which famous N. J. generals have niclies m the 
National Gallery at Washington? Gal ant Phil. Kear- 
ney Sf the wa? of 1861„ and Richard Stockton, one 
of tiie signers of the "Declaration." 
2 
What are the dimensions of the great ''Bean to 
which N. J. has been likened? Length, from the North 
To Cape May, 167 and three-eighths miles ; greatest 
lrreath'59 mUes; least (South Amboy to Bordentown) 
32 miles, and it spreaas over o,d24,«0U acres. 
3 
Which four states have less area thaii N. J^? Mas- 
sachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island. 
4 
How long did women vote in N. J.? ^.'^'^l}™ 
to iSOT^^nring the reign (30 years) of universal suffrage. 

style. g 

What is "the present value" °f *« West half of 
New Jersey, ^J* XaU^e^'^'l!^" \f uIT/ Irfwn 
then dividing line between E. and W. Jersey. 

How is the 'Teninsula'' of N. J^ divided? (1) Pine 

8 r 

What singular petition was presented by a son ot 
JudgV Symmel to Congress? For an expedition to en^ 
ter the openings at the earth's poles -- ^is them^ bemg 
that the earth is hollow and inhabited at the center. 
Hence the name "Symmes Hole. 



108 HISTORICAI. HANI) BOOK Ol- Ni;\V JKRShV. 

I 

What iiiountain range parallels the Delaware tor o<^ 
miles? The Blue or Kittatinny range. It rises from 
Mt. Tammany. 1.47!> feet, to High Point. l.T!»!> feet. 
2 

How extensive are the "Highlands" of N. J.? 
Sixty miles long. 22 miles wide, and area !><l(l s(|uarc 
miles. 

3 

What progress did the State make in wealth in •«► 
years? In lS.*,(i. .fj(i(i,<io0,(i()(): 18«i(>, $4U7.(HMt.(MKi. and 
1870. >;!»l<i.!»7ti.n(i4. 

4 

Wiial (lid the Supt. ol B()slon Sclujols say of N. j. 
over "20 years ago? "In her schools. New Jersey, to- 
day towers far above nearly every State in the Union, 
including New York. * * Her lands under water are 
worth millions, and from these millions are to come a 
fund for the best schools in America. It should also 
he remembered that land in N. J. is worth more per 
acre than in any other State of the Union." 
5 

What honorary title did the Six Nations of New 
York confer on N. J. in appreciation of her fair deal- 
ings with them? "Sagorihwigogstha" — "Doer" of 
Justice. 

6 

What representative had N. J. in the Conquest of 
California from Mexico in Aug. 184«)? Commtxlore 
Robert E. Stockton, who took possession of that 
country after the taking of Los Angeles and appointed 
John C. Fremont Governor. Gen. Winfield Scott was 
from New Jersev. 

7 

How were the accounts growing out of the war be- 
tween the U. S. and Great Britain balanced by one 
writer? Loss to Great Britain: two large armies capt- 
ured, exclusive of many killed and i)risoners — 13 colo- 
nies dismembered from her and an increase of the Na- 
tional debt in seven years $800 000.000. Tlie U. S. have 
gained independence and liberty — with a debt less than 
^.''), 000,(100. 



THINGS NEW AND OI.D. 169' 

1 

What prominent New Jersey men bought large 
tracts of land (250,000 acres) in Ohio about one hun- 
dred years ago? Jonathan Dayton, Elias Boudinot, and 
John Cleves Symmes. The land was called the 
''Symmes Tract" and included Cincinnati, O., and Day- 
tn, O., between the Big and Little Miami Rivers. Judge 
Symmes settled at North Bend. O., where Gen. Wm. H. 
Harrison also lived and married to a daughter of 
Symmes. 

2 

Where was the first japanned leather made in this 
country? At Newark, but tanning was introduced in 
1664, at Elizabeth, where, in 1676, the first shoemaker 
located, "on condition of supplying 'it' with shoes." 
Embargo on shipping hides existed in 1678. 

3 

Who was one of the earliest advocates of railroads 
in N. J., or any other State? John Stevens, who asked 
tor a charter in 1815, for a wood or u'on road from Tren- 
ton to New Brunswick. He got the charter, but ''that" 
New Jersey "Central" Railroad was not built. The one 
of 1832 was completed. 

4 

What two great enterprises were chartered the same 
day, Feb. 1830? The Delaware and Raritan Canal Co., 
and the Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transporta- 
tion Co. The latter was the "first railroad operated in 
the State. 

5 

When was the Central Railroad of New Jersey char- 
tered? In 1849, and completed 75 miles at a cost of 
over 20 million dollars. 

6 

What do fruit growers call N. J.? "The Market 
Garden of New York and Philadelphia." 
7 

What of the Rogers Locomotive Works? They 
were called, in 1837, the "Rogers Machine Works", but 
were started in 1831, at Paterson, to make woolen, flax 
and cotton goods. The first locomotive made in the 
State was turned out here. 



l/(» HISTORICAL HAND HOOK OF NEW JKKM.V. 

1 

When was the Morris and Essex Canal Co. chav 

tered? In 1824, to connect the Hudson and Delawar.. 

and was finished in 183G, at a cost of over two million 

dollars. 

•) 

Who gave an impetus to the leather business in the 
olden time? Col. Wm. Edwards (grandson of Jonathan 
Edwardsj. born in 1770 at Elizabeth. An inventor at 
20, he introduced many labor-saving devioes in the 
tanning line. 

o 

Where was the first copper mine found? Near 
Hanover. Morris Co., in 1719. by a negro — but the 
Dutch had worked it before. It was a water mine, 200 
feet deep. The ore carried by land to New York, was 
shipped to England, where it brought 40 pounds a ton. 
4 

How many men did N. J. furnish under the "first 
call", April 15, '61? 3,128. or under all calls 1861-5 — 
79,511 men — only New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio. Illi- 
nois. Massachusetts, Indiana and Michigan excelling. 
5 

What naval battle occurred off N. J , Jan. 15, 1815? 
Between the Frigate "President", Com. Decatur, and 
the British "Squadron", Com. Hayes — the latter vic- 
torious. 

6 

How long was the first session of the first Legisla- 
tive Assembly? Four days, during which 12 offences, 
each punishable with death, were defined. Seven years 
elapsed before the next Assembly convened. 
I 

Which of New Jersey's governors was governor of 
Washington Territory? W. A. Newell, in 1880-4. Gov. 
Wm. Pennington declined the governorship of Minne- 
sota Territory. 

8 

What other name had "Ye Falls of ye Delaware" a> 
described in the purchase, in Feb. 1682. by Wm. Penn 
and 11 other Quakers of West Jersey? Trenton. 
And it became the joint capital in 1790. 



.THINGS NEW AND OLD. 171 

1 

What peculiar names, or titles, have some of New 
Jersey's newspapers had? N. J. "Sand Burr", The 
Wave, Sunday Call, Recreation, To-day, Ringoes, Ava- 
lanche, The Tiger, Targun, Trumpet, N. J. Chic, Town 
Tattle, Cranberry Press. 

2 

How long was the project of a monument for the 
battlefield of Trenton discussed before it materialized? 
Over 50 years. Finally ground was broken, Sept. 20, 
1891, and the cornerstone laid Dec. 26, 1891, the 115th 
anniversary of the battle and the monument unveiled 
Oct. 19, 1893. The Trenton Battle Monument Associa- 
tion was formed May 7, 1874. N. J. appropriated $15,- 
000, individuals, $15,000. and the U. S., $30,000. New 
York State gave the bronze statue of Washington, 
whose figure is just twice his actual height and size. 
O' Donovan, Sculptor. Height of monument above 
street, 150 feet; weight, 4,000,000 pounds. 

3 

What were the principal battles of the Revolution 
on N. J. soil? 

1 — Trenton, Dec. 26, '76 — Washington vs. Corn- 
w^allis and Col. Rahl — or 2,400 vs. 1,000. American 
loss, two killed and two frozen; British, 36 killed and 
1,000 prisoners. 

2 — Princeton, Jan. 3, '77 — Washington vs. Col. 
Mawhood — or 3,000 vs. 1,800 men. American loss, 
100 killed, and 300 prisoners. 

3 — Ft. Mercer, Oct. 22, '77 — Col. Greene (Am.) 
vs. Donop — or 4,500 vs. 2,000 men. British loss, 500 
killed. 

4 — Redbank, Oct. 22, '77 — Col. Greene vs. Sir 
Wm. Howe. American loss, 8 killed and 28 wounded. 
British. 400 killed and wounded. 

5 — Monmouth, June 28, '78 — Washington vs. Sir 
H. Clinton, or 12,000 vs. 11,000 men. American loss, 67 
killed, and 100 wounded; British, 200 killed and 300 
wounded, 100 prisoners; total. 700. 

6 — Springfield, June 23, '80 — Gen. Greene (Am.) 
vs. Gen. Kuyphausen — or 3,000 vs. 5,000 men. Amer- 
ican loss, 13 killed and 58 wounded. 



l/'_' HISTORICAI. HAND ROOK OF Ni:\V JllRSIlV. 

1 

What has been the increase in population of N. J. 
for each decade? F"rom 1790 to 1800. 27.810 inhabitants; 
from 1800 to 1810. :{;5.0O(; inhabitants: from 181o to 1820, 
32.020 inhabitants: from 1820 to 18:io. .Vi.248 iniiabitants. 
from 1830 to 1810. r,2.48M inhabitants: from 1840 to 1850. 
116.24<) inhabitants; from 18.50 to 1800. 182.480 inhabit- 
ants; from 1800 to 187o. 234.001 inhabitants; from 1870 
to 1880. 225.020 inhabitants; from 1880 to 180O. 313.817 
inhabitants. 

2 

To whom did Gen. Washington give the initial or- 
der at the battle of Trenton, the morning of Dec. 26? 
To his 10 year old artillery man. Alexander Hamilton, 
both being on the Pennington Road, where the monu- 
ment stands. 

3 

How long had the artist sculptor made a study of 
Washington's face and figure? Twenty years, and he 
took accurate measurements of Washington's uniform, 
etc.. in the Smithsonian Institute, and doubled the pro- 
protions of each and all to make them and statue 
colossal. 

4 

How does the yeai 17ti!i compare with lS7o as to 
the taxable wealth of X. J.? Estimated real and per- 
sonal property in 17()!» (when N. J. was taxed $4(K00O 
annually to pay her share of the cost of the French war) 
$15,000,000. which, divided by the then population. 125.- 
000, gave $12o to each inhabitant. In 187o. with a popu- 
lation of about 000. 000, the wealth of each inhabitant was 
about $800. 

5 

What of the increase of churches between 1705 and 
1870? "Eightfold; average value, fourfold; gross 
value, sixfold, and i)er cai)ita value, fivefold" (Smith). 
Number of churches in 1705. 100. Number in 1870. 
1.384. valued at *]8, 317,150 \v.r;iuv value of each 
church. .*13,37f). 

(') 

Which counties have iniiural springs in them? 
Morris and Hunterdon. 



THINGS NEW AND OI.D. 173 

1 

How many counties were represented in the N. J. 
Legislature of 1776? All — thirteen — the same num- 
ber as the states: Bergen, Burlington, Cape May. Cum- 
berland, Essex, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Middlesex, 
Monmouth, Morris, Salem, Somerset and Sussex. Each 
county had one member of the Council, and each, ex- 
cept Gloucester, had three members of the Assembly. 
Hunterdon furnished both the Vice-Pres. and the 
Speaker. 

2 
How much did the 10,000 acres of cultivated and 
9,000 acres of wild cranberry land produce in 1890? loO,- 
000 bushels, worth $2.50 or over a bushel. 

3 
What are some of the school statistics of 1890? 
Schools number 1,015, teachers 4,125, pupils 225,000, 
and 45,000 pupils in private schools. Colleges: Seton 
Hall (1856) and Drew Theological Seminary (1867; at 
Madison, German Theological School at Bloomington, 
and Reformed Dutch at Brunswick, Princeton Theo- 
logical (Pres.) Seminary founded in 1812. Rutger's 
Scientific School, which enjoys the benefit of the Con- 
gressional land donation. 

4 
Why has N. J. no State motto? Because she needs 
none to stimulate her to good deeds. But envious out- 
siders have nicknamed her people "Clam Catchers", 
and the territory as the State of "Camden and Amboy." 

5 
How did N. J. rank in sheep in 1890? The 13th 
among the states, Texas, California, Ohio, Michigan, 
New York, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, 
Minnesota and Nebraska, with 240.000, nreceding N. J., 
with its 104,000. 

6 
How did N. J. rank in 1890 among the Pig Iron 
producing states? Tenth, with 145,040 tons to Mis- 
souri's 99,131 tons, Minnesota's 21.000, and Indiana's 
11,479 tons. Wisconsin. Michigan. Tennessee. Virginia, 
New York, Illinois. Alabama, Ohio and Pennsylvania 
outranked in order the State of N. J. 



174 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

Where was the dividing line between E. and W. 
Jersey in 1677? It was a line drawn N. W. from Little 
Egg Harbor and almost passing through Trenton. 

2 
What are the Coast summer resorts between Sandy- 
Hook and Cape May? Port Monmouth, Highlands, 
Sea Bright, Island Hights, Long Branch, Deal Beach, 
Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, Ocean Beach, Spring Lake, 
Sea Girt Squan, Point Pleasant, Squan Beach, Lavalette 
City, Sea-Side Park. Island Beach, Long Beach, Beach 
Haven, Brigantine Beach, Atlantic City, Absecom 
Beach, Peck's Beach, Leanning's Beach, Five Mile 
Beach, Seaville, Ocean View, Cape May, and of these 
Cape May. Asbury Park, Atlantic City and Long 
Branch are the largest and most popular. 

3 
What nickname, or sobriquet, besides "The Jer- 
seys", has N. J.? Jersey Blue. 

4 
When and where was the first electric car run? In 
1880, on a half-mile of track (at Menlo Park, N. J.), con- 
structed by Thomas A. Edison, the inventor. In May 
1880, Stephen D. Field was experimenting, but his car 
did not run till 1881. In 1883 both inventors had an 
electric locomotive ("The Judge") in operation in Chi- 
cago, at the Chicago Railway Exposition, where, with 
a trail car, it drew 26,000 passengers in two weeks. 

5 
Who were the first five Presidents in twenty years 
of "Princeton College"? Jonathan Dickinson. 1747; 
Aaron Burr, 1748-57; Jonathan Edwards. 1758; Samuel 
Davies. 1759-01 : Samuel Finley, 1761-6. The next five 
Presidents — Withcrspoon, Smith. Green, Carnahan 
and Maclean, rounded out a century — 1768-1868. 

6 
TTow many tributaries has Delaware River, which 
drains the west half of the State? I'^iltccn. 

7 
What N. J. Geologist has a name abroad f(ir his 
accurate maps and researches? Geo. II. Cook. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 175 

1 

How long has the White Cedar "Mine", or sunken 
forest of Cape May Co. supolied wood and shingles? 
For over a century. The growths above this "mine" 
are over 1,000 years old, says Mr. Geologist. 

2 

What pay do the 21 Senators (three years) and 60 
representatives (one year) constituting the Legislature, 
receive? $500 per annum. Other salaries: Governor 
(three years) $10,000; Chief Justice (seven years) $7,500; 
Associates, $7,000; Chancellor (seven years) $10,000; 
Vice-Chancellors, $5,000; Sec'y of State, $6,000; Treas. 
and Comptroller, $4,000 each; Atty Gen., $7,000. 
3 

How many of the over 900 postoffices are "Presi- 
dential"? About 100. 

4 

How much "Jersey lightning" (apple-jack, or 
brandy) do the 50 distilleries of Warren and Sussex 
(with Orange Co., N. Y.) produce? About 200,000 gal- 
lons a year, making most of America's product. 

5 

What are the names of the rivers of N. J.? Atson, 
Bass Batch, Dead, Delaware, Great Egg Harbor, Man- 
asquan, Maurice, Metede Creek, Millstone, Musconet- 
cony, Neversink, North and South Branch of Raritan, 
Oswego, Passaic, Pequert. Raway, Ramapo, Raritan. 
Shark, South, Tom's Tuckawe, Wading, Wahlkill. 
What lakes? Budd, Calvers, Green, Hopatcong, Mor- 
ris, Long, Sucker, Swatouls, Wagwagandas. 
6 

After whom was Trenton named in 1720? Col. 
William Trent, its owner. Originally it was called 
Trent's Town. 

7 

Which, besides N. J., are leading cranberry states? 
Wisconsin and Massachusetts. Cranberry "Head- 
quarters" at Trenton. 

8 

Where are the graves of Aaron Burr and Jonathan 
Edwards? At Princeton. 



17«i HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OK NHW JKRSKV. 

1 

What are some of the cities celebrated for? Tren- 
ton, for potteries and crockery; Paterson. for silk- mak- 
ing; Xew Brun-;\vick. for rubber and harness factories; 
Millville. for glassware; Plainrteld. for hat-making; 
Rah way. for carriage-making; Bayonne. for oil refin- 
eries and tide-water pipe-line terminus; Jersey City, 
for ferry boats, railway lines, slaughtering and meat 
packing; Phillipsburg. for iron works; Bridgeton. fur 
iron, woolen and glass factories; Newark, for larg«.* 
banks and insurance interests, to say nothing of a yearly 
production of over 50 million dollars worth of leather, 
rubber and other goods, besides beer and flour; Eliza- 
beth. Morristown. Orange and other places \ie wil'n 
each ollic-r in offering residence attractions to Xew 
York. 

2 

How long was Rutgers (Queen's) College (founded 
in 170(j) closed, for various reasons? 25 years, its build- 
ings being once burned by the British. 

Whence did the red sandstone, in Trinity church. 
N. v.. come? From Little Falls. X. J., part of the 1.5(M> 
square miles extent of that stone. 
4 

What valuable marbles are found? The Serpentine 
of Montville. and the Rose-crystal of Jeniiy-Junii) 
mountain. 

5 

What geological surveys of the State have been 
made-? That of 1S;^!)-1(I. bv Prof. Rogers; that of 185 l-f. 
bv Prof. Kitchell. and that of IStll-it bv Prof. Cook. 

6 

Where are the suburban summer estates of rich 
New Yorkers? In the hill country of Orange. Mom 
clair. Madison. Morristown. Summit, and tlu- Short 
Hills. 

What loss did Princeton College experience, when 
the war (lHtil-5) broke out? One-third of its students 
— sons of Secessionists — returned to the South, an<l 
many loyal ones joined the I'nion ranks. 



THINGS NKW AND OLD. 177 

1 

Where has the U. S. a powder depot? About five 
miles from Dover, and a military post — Ft. Wood — 
on Bedloe's Island. 

2 

After whom was Nassau Hall, at Princeton (built 
in 1754-7), named? King William III, of "Nassau." 
Once it was the largest building in America. 
3 
Wliat two islands has N. J.? Clam and Long 
Beach. 

4 
Who founded the Mammonton and Vineland settle- 
ments in South N. J.? New Englanders, about 25 years 
ago. 

5 
What is the area of Newark Bay? Ten square 
miles. 

6 
At what elevation are the Fresnel lights on the 
Highlands of Navesink? 248 feet, Mt. Mitchell, near 
Sandy Hook, being 282 feet. 
7 
Where did Pres. Garfield die? At Elberson, near 
Long Branch, to the South. 
8 
Which is the oldest seaside resort in N. J.? Point 
pleasant. 

9 
Where are the famous Methodist camp meeting 
grounds, devoted to piety and pleasure? Ocean Grove 
and Asbury Park. 

10 
What pine woods, winter resorts, has N. J.? 
Brown's Mills. 30 miles from Philadelphia, and Lake- 
wood, eight miles from the sea. The former a resort 
for three-fourths of a century. 
11 
Which city makes more pottery and crockery than 
all the Atlantic states together? Trenton, in whose 
vicinity and that of Amboy and Woodbridge. are large 
•supplies of tTie best plastic and other clays. 



178 HISTOKU \I HANI) BOOK OF NKW I1:KSKV. 

1 

What choice larmiiig region in the Delaware Val- 
ley? From Salem to Trenton. X. J., farms outvalue 
those of other states. 

2 

Where is the zinc ore. dug at Franklin and Ogden- 
hurg. worked? At Jersey City and Newark. On 
County (Sussex) averages about 4<».(mm» tcjns a year. 

:i 
How wide is the Kitatinny Valley — with its fint 
farms and grazing lands — its beautiful lakes and hilK 
well cultivated? Ten miles. 
4 
From what point <lid Washington watch the Briti-li 
troops, then invading N. J.? Washingt<jn Rock, ovc 
looking Dunellen. .Xmboy. Newark. Elizabeth. Rahwa\ 
New York, and the .Atlantic. 
5 
At what l'«> year old summer resort is Washington-- 
room and furniture still kept intact? Heath Housr. 
opened in 17!».S. for the Springs flowing from Schooley- 
Mountain. 

{') 
What are some of the cleared farms of the sandy 
waste in South N. J., worth? Over $;{<MI an acre. 
I 
Why has a portion of the N. J. coast been called 
"The Graveyard of the Sea"? Because of the many 
wrecks on its sands. Over 4.r»(i(l lives and $7.'Km».(»(M» in 
property were saved in six years, when 4'»(i vessels 
were stranded and ^^<^ lives lost. The coast, along which 
are ^0 or more lights, is patrolled by night and day. by 
the U. S. Life Saving Service. 
8 
W'lure. in \. J., are there National Cemeteries 
Beverly. kno»\n 1 1'), unknown dead 7; b'inn's Poiir 
known — . unknown 2.i\\\. 
!» 
Wlur*-. i)e>^ides N. J., is every Saturday after 1 
o'clock a legal holiday? New York. IVnn^ylvani.i. 
Maryland, aiul the city of New Orleans. 



THINGS NEW AND OI.D. 179 

1 

Where is the U. S. 'Troving Ground". Ordinance 
Department? At Sandy Hook, N. J. 
2 

When were some of the Colleges and Universities 
of N. J. organized? Drew Theological Seminary 
(Meth.), Madison, 18()(); Princeton (col. of N. J.), 1746; 
Rutgers College (Ref.). New Brunswick, 1766; Seton 
Hall College (R C.). South Orange, 1856; Stevens In- 
stitute of Technology, Hoboken, 1871. 
3 

Which states contained in 1894 the three oldest liv- 
ing graduates of West Point Academy? New York, 
Texas and N. J., in the person of Gen. George S. 
Green, who graduated in 1823. 
4 

When did the remnant of the dozen Indian tribes 
of N. J. leave the State, first settling at Oneida Lake 
and later on Lake Michigan? In 1802, and in 1832 the 
40 survivors sold their land-rights — to fish and hunt 
— to the State. 

5 

What led to the battle of Monmouth in June 28, 
1778? The attack by Wayne, Lee and Lafayette on the 
rear of Clinton's army, then making for New York. 
The battlefield was marked by a monument in 1884. 

6 
How many states were included in the "North At- 
lantic Division" of the 11th (1890) U. S. census? Nine, 
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, New 
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts. Rhode Island and 
Connecticut, and the wealth of that division aggregated 
$21,435,401,864, or $1,232 to each inhabitant. 

7 
Which are the oldest public libraries with over 
1,000 volumes each? College of N. J., Princeton, 
founded in 1750; Burlington Library Co., 1758; Bur- 
lington Co. Lyceum, Mt. Holly, 1765; Cleosophic So- 
ciey. Princeton, 1765; Rutgers College, New Bruns- 
wick, 1766; American Whig Society, Princeton, 1769; 
Woodbury Library Company, founded in 1794. 



fKO HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NKW JERSEY. 

1 

Which, says the U. S. Geological Survey, is the 
highest "recorded" point in N. J.? Kittatinny Moun- 
tain, 1,630 feet. 

2 

Where is the State Home for Disabled X'ohintccr 
Soldiers? At Kearney, 310 members. 

3 
What amount of roses are said to be gathered yearly 
in Southern France for the use of one soap firm in New 
Jersey? Ninety tons. 

4 
When was tiie wonderful Search Light, which was 
on exhibition at the World's Fair, first exhibited on the 
Atlantic Coast? June 4. 18*J4." at Sandy Hook, the rays 
plainly showing up Staten and Coney Islands and other 
places along the N. J. coast. 
5 
How nuich did the population oi X. J. in 18'J0 ex- 
ceed that of ITiXi? I,2(i0,7l)4. with her rank changed 
from the 9th to the 18th State. 

6 
What strange "naval" event occurred June 14, 'Vi. 
at "Cholera Banks". 11 miles from Long Island, and 17 
miles from Navesink Highlands? The planting of a 
blue and red Hag with a single star, over a shoal (10 feet 
deep, whereby the parties took possession in their own 
name, of a marine league in all directions, for the build- 
ing of an island to be called "Atlantis", with jurisdiction 
independent of all governments. 

7 

How manv Asiatics and Indians has X. J. had at 
certain decades? "Chinese". 1870. :.: 188»i. 17(1; 18!>(i. 
608; "Japanese". 1870. 10; 1880. 2; 1800. 22; "Civilized 
Indians". 1870. 16; 1880. 74; 1800. 84. 

Which counties IkkI most of the 608 Chinese .of 
1800? Hudson. 103; h:ssex. 161; Passaic. 6!>; Cam- 
den. 54. 

Which counties le<l in ISIK) in the nmnber of Indians 
therein? Mercer. 1!>; Monmouth. 18. and Burling- 
t/m. 15. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 181 

1 

How much' revenue did one tobacco firm in N. J. 
pay the U. S. Government in taxes during 25 years? 

$50,000,000. 

2 

Which two states kept together, but went a notch 
higher in population between 1880 and 1890? N. J. 
and Kansas, passing from number 19 and 20 to number 
18 and 19 in rank. 

3 

What percentage has been the increase of N. J. in 
population within 100 years? 1790-1800, 14.07; 1800- 
1810, 16.30: 1810-1820, 12.98; 1820-1830, 15.64; 1830- 
1840, 16.36; 1840-1850; 31.14: 1850-1860, 37.27; 1860- 
1870, 34.83; 1870-1880, 24.83; 1880-1890, 27.74. 

4 

How many of the 367 newspapers, etc., published 
in 1894 in N. J. were dailies? Forty-eight, and 255 
were weeklies. 

5 

What rank among cities in population had New 
Jersey's leading cities in 1880-1890? 1880. Newark 15th 
and Jersey City 17th. In 1890. Newark 17th and Jersey 
City 19th. In 1880 Milwaukee was 19th and in 1890 the 
16th in rank. 

6 

How many of the 50 leading cities in 1890 (in popu- 
lation) did N. J. furnish? Four; Jersey City, Paterson, 
Camden and Trenton. 

7 

How have the sexes in N. J. kept pace in numbers 
within 50 years? 1840-50. males. 50.12; females, 49.88. 
1880-90, males, 49.89; females. 50.11. 

8 
What became of the N. J. State building at the 
World's Fair? It was sold June 23, '94, to an Ex Jer- 
seyman, for a summer residence on the Lake (Mich.) 
shore. 

9 
How much did the real and personal estate of N. J. 
increase from 1860 to 1870? 110 per cent., or $296,- 
682,492 to $624,868,971. 



182 HISTORICAL HAND HOOK OF NKW JERSF.V. 

1 

H(»\v nianv dwellings in X J. at these periods? 
18.jO. ?<1.<»«J4: l^<0<^ ll<].:io2; 187u. 150.1)30; l?<f<0. lin>.4u;i; 
181«>. 247.:i4J: with (J.n4. 5.78. 5.81. 5.!>4. 5.84 persons to 
each dwelling in these years. 
2 

Which counties led in 18!l(i in the number of dwell- 
ings? Essex. 35.839; Hudson. 31.85«); Camden. 18.- 
44!); Mercer. 15.853; Monmouth. 14.585; and Passaic. 
14.()2<>. As to number of families. Hudson, with 57.- 
553. led. ! 

3 

How were the troops sent by X. J. to the war of 
18(11-5 classified? Three regiments of cavalry, five bat- 
teries light artillery, thirty-eight regiments and four in- 
dependent companies of infantry. 
4 

Which State, only, exceeds that of N. J. in the 
value of its farm lands? Massachusetts. The X. J. 
value due to high cultivation, favorabli- climate, and 
nearness to market. 



What N. J. building, owned and cared for by llu- 
American Historical Society, was reproduced at tlu- 
World's Fair? Washington's heachpiarters at Morris- 
town — as a State building cost $15.(mmi. In it Wash- 
ington planned the campaign of 1779-80, and within its 
walls lived Hamilton and assembled many famous men 
of the Revidution. Api)ropriation of \ T to the Fair. 
$130,000 for exhibit expenses. 
6 

How much of the total wealth, at "true value", of 
the U. S.. $<)5.(i37.0!ll.l!»7. (.Alaska excepted) as reported 
by the 11th (18!KI) U. S. Census, belonged to Xew Jer- 



How many of the :n;?.»!S5 militia in X. J. in 18!"i 
were fon-igii born? Ii5,571, and ll.lMJ colore*!. 
s 

How were the 48.35'J colored people in X. J. iti 
18!)() classified? RIacks. 4().43(); mulattoes. (J.1J3; Quad 
roons, 701; Octoroons. 378. 



THINGS NEW AND OI.D. 183 

1 

How large an area of N. J. in 1890 had 18 to 45 

persons to the square mile? 1550 square miles. How 

large area 45 to 90 persons? 3055 square miles. How 

large area had 90 or more persons? 2850 square miles. 

2 

Which of the railroads of N. J. cost the most? 
Morris and Essex, 53 miles, $15,000,000, or about $300,- 
000 a mile. Camden and Amboy, 64 miles, $11,225,000, 
or about $175,000 a mile. The Central, 64 miles, $10,- 
240,000, or $160,000 a mile. 

What did the leading canals cost? Delaware and 
Raritan, 65 miles. $4,580,000, or about $70,000 a mile; 
Morris Canal and Banking Co., 102 miles, $3,500,000, or 
about $3,500 per mile. 

3 

Who represented N. J. in the first Congress, March 
4, 1789 to March 3, 1891? Senators: Jeremiah Elmer, 
Wm. Patterson, and Philemon Dickinson. Representa- 
tives: Elias Boudinot, Lambert Cadwalader, Thomas 
Sinnickson, and James Schureman. 

4 

What stone is said to be stronger than some granite? 
The trap-rock of N. J. It bears a pressure of 24,000 
pounds per cubic inch, while granite crumbles at 17.0<)0 
pounds, and the strongest American marble at 13,000 
pounds, and limestone at 14,000 pounds. 

5 

When did N. J. furnish a Sec'y of the U. S. Treas- 
ury? Samuel L. Southard, from March 7, 1825. 

When Secretary of War? Sam'l L. Southard, from 
May 26, 1828? Geo. M. Robeson, from March 2, 1876. 

What Legislative Presidents? Elias Boudinot, of 
the Continental Congress in 1872-3; S. L. Southard, of 
U. S. Senate in 1841-2. 

When U. S. Secretaries of the Navy? Sam'l L. 
Southard, from Sept. 16, 1823; Mahlon Dickerson. from 
June 30, 1834; Geo. M. Robeson, from June 25. 1869. 

What Foreign Ministers? J. L. Stockton, to Rome 
in 1858; W. L. Dayton, to Paris in 1861-4; Judson Kil- 
patrick, to Chili in 1865, etc. 



184 HISTORICAL HAND HOOK OK NKW JKRSKV. 

1 

WIkj in the 40 Congress, 18G7-18G0? Senators: 
Cattell and Frelinghuysen. Representatives: Haight,. 
Halsey, Hill. Moon, and Sitgraves. 
2 

Who were the governors under the first Constitu- 
tion? W'ni. Livingston. 177G-90; Wm. Paterson. 171)1- 
94; R. Howell. 17!l4-18<il: Joseph Bloomfiehl. 18(11-2; 
J. Lambert. 18<r2-:i; Joseph Bloomfield. lSii;i-lJ; Aaron 
Ogden. 181-2-13; Wm. S. Pennington. 18l:i-ir,; Mahlon 
Dickerson. 1815- 1'7; L H. Williamson. 1817-2!>; Peter 
de Vroom. 1829-32; S. L. Southard, 1832-33; E. P. 
Seeley. 1833-34; P. D. Vroom. 1834-G; P. Dickerson. 
183G-7; Wm. Pennington, 1837-43; Daniel Haines. 
1843-4. 

Who were the governors under the second Consti- 
tution, that of Aug. 1844? Charles C. Stratton. 184')-8; 
Daniel Haines. 1848-51; Geo. F. Fort. 1851-54; Rod- 
man M. Price. 1854-57; Wm. A. Newell. 1S57-GO; Chas. 
S. Olden. 18G0-G3; Joel Parker. 18G3-GG; Marcus L. 
Ward. 18GG-G9; Theo. F. Randolph. 18G!)-72; Joel 
Parker. 1872-75; Joseph D. Bedle. 1875-78; Geo. B. 
McClellan. 1878-1881; Geo. C. Ludlow. 1881-84; Leon 
Abbott. 1884-87; Robert S. Green. 1887-!>0; Leon Ab- 
bott, 189(>-!l3; George T. Wert/, lS93-!»(;; John W. 
Griggs. 189G-90. 

3 

What inventor, born at Camden in 1819. died in 
1895 at Kansas City. Mo., at the age of 7G? Fred B. 
Sickels. inventor of the Corliss' Fngine and also of a 
cut-ofT which revolutionized the steam engine. 
4 

How much was subscribed, in one day. in 1831. for 
a railroad from Paterson to the Hudson? $1,291,730, 
or five times the amount recpiired. 

Wh.it was called "a proud era in the historv of N. 
J."? The passage — "3 to 59" — March 7. 1832. of the 
New Jersey Railroad Bill. 
6 

How manv of the 598 newspapers in the L\ S. in 
1824. were in N. J? Eighteen. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 185 

1 

How much did the State prison cost the State in 
1822? About $G,oUO. Of the 99 convicts in 1823, there 
were three male and two female "slaves", 68 whites and 
23 "free" blacks. 

2 

What said the "Voice of Pasaic" in 1823? "Ere 
another century rolls around, Paterson, the greatest 
manufacturing town in the U. S., will rival, if not sur- 
pass, the Manchester of Europe." 

3 

What was the fate, in 1823, of every note of the 
Camden (N. J.) Bank — if tendered in Pennsylvania? 
Forfeiture, and the person offering it was liable to costs 
of court, etc. 

4 

How large a honey-comb was found in a tree five 
and one-half feet in circumference, in May Co., in 1823? 
Eighteen feet long, and filled with honey. 

5 
How many of the 333 persons in Essex Co. jail in 
1823 were held in close confinement for debt? 141 — 
their debts aggregating $35,400. 

6 
What reminder, in Postoffices, is there of William 
Penn, once interested in N. J.? In Penn Grove and 
Pennsville, Salem, Co., and Pennington, Mercer Co., 
while "Carteret" is remembered in Middlesex Co. 

7 
What U. S. forts, arsenals, etc., in N. J.? Finn's 
Point Battery, Salem; Fort Sandy Hook, and a Powder 
Depot at Dover, N. J. 

8 
About what was the time of mail transit between 
Trenton, N. J., and these places in 1894? Boston, 9 
hours; Chicago, 23 hours. 52 mmutes; Cincinnati, O., 
21 hours, 7 minutes; St. Louis, 28 hours, 22 minutes; 
San Francisco, 104 hours, 45 minutes; Pittsburg, Pa., 
12 hours, 7 minutes; Washington, D. C, 6 hours, 7 
minutes; Philadelphia, 1 hour; New York, 2 hours; 
Baltimore, 4 hours, 27 minutes. 



186 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NKW JERSEY. 

1 

Where, in N. J., are National Cemeteries? At Bev- 
erly. Burlington Co.. and at Finn's Point. Saleni Co. 
2 

Which N. J. Congressman first proposed to use the 
public domain in paying off the Revolutionary war debt 
due soldiers and other creditors? Dr. John Wither- 
spoon, minister, scholar, statesman and President, in 
17«!7. of Princeton College. Four states — New York, 
in 17SJ. Virginia, in 1784. Massachusetts, in 1785, and 
Connecticut, in 178<i — endorsed his plan, which led to 
the settlement of Ohio and other western states. 
3 

What of Newark, first settled in lOGO? It was char- 
tered in 1713 by Queen Anne, became a city in 183() — 
l"Jti years later — and when owning lO.iMlO acres in town 
lands, in 1081. had a population of oOO inhabitants. Its 
population in 18!tO (181,83(0 was 173,830 more than that 
84 vears previous. Its altitude is '23(1 feet above sea 
level and it is in Lat. 4o°, 44' N., Long. 74', 1<>' W. 
4 

What is the altitude of Jersey City, which is in Lat. 
40°. 43; N., and Long. 74°, 1' W.? 170 feet. First 
settled in Ki'lO, it became a city in 1820. 
5 

How much more population had Jersev Citv in 
1890 than in 1802? 161.5(>3 (l<;3,o03-l,r.()0.) 

6 
Who printed, at Trenton, in 1872. a Complete Reg- 
ister of N. J. officers and men engaged in the Revolu- 
tionary War? Adjutant General Stryker. 
7 
Where are the papers once belonging to John Fen- 
wick? In the N. J. Historical Society Library. 
8 
How nuich further south did the Hudson once 
flow than now? About 3') miles to the S. E. of Sandy 
Hook — so the ancient mouth of "North River" was 
once off the Coast of Central New Jersey. 

What evidence of that remains? .A submarine 
channel, or chasm (traced bv sea-survevors) 2'i miles 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 187 

long, 11 mile wide and, in places, 2,000 feet deep, cutting 
through a broad submarine plateau — which plunges 
into the deep ocean bed. 

What do geologists say of the general surface of 
N. J.? Once much higher than now, and still sinking 
at the "fearful" rate of — inches a century. 

What shortened the Hudson and stopped up its 
ancient mouth? The drift brought from the N. W. dur- 
ing the Ice Age — when icebergs and masses of ice 
carried boulders, which made the furrows and scratches 
still seen on the tops of the Palisades. These boulders 
were called "aliens", because from a "foreign" (un- 
known) country. 

1 

How many U. S. Cabinet positions had, up to July 
1895, fallen to N. J. since the formation of the govern- 
ment? Four. 

2 

What rival of Newton and Leibnitz was employed, 
in 1769, by the boundary commission of New York and 
N. J. to find the point where the 41° of latitude (the N. 
line of N. J.) strikes the Hudson? David Rittenhouse, 
grandson of the first paper mill maker of Pennsylvania, 
in 1690. 

3 

Where did a son of "Peter Parley" (S. G. Goodrich) 
die March 15, 1894? At Morristown, N. J. As a writer, 
"Dick Tinto" was his name. 
4 

When did Wm. Walter Phelps (born 1839) die? 
June 27, 1894, at Tennech, Bergen Co. Pres. Garfield 
appointed him Minister to Austria, and Gov. Werts 
made him Judge Phelps. His gifts and bequests to 
Yale, his alma mater, amounted to $150,000. 
5 

Where were some of the 33 parties of U. S. geo- 
logical surveyors, in the field in 1893, at work? In N. J. 
and New York. 

6 

When was "Gold in Jersey" a press headline? June 
3, '95, when Park workmen, in Paterson, found gold' in 
the Passaic River hills. 



188 HISTOKICAI, HAM) HOOK OF NKW JKkSKV. 

1 

On wlioin did Princeton confer LL. U. about 1880? 
Gen. Cesnola, whose art and archaeoloj^ical researches, 
in Cyprus, made him and the Metropohtan Museum of 
New York, famous. 

2 

When liad a naluraHzed citizen of Paterson been 
five months in jail in Germany — for liability to serve 
in the army of his Fatherland? June 1<>. 180o. 
3 

Wherein does X. J. honor education more than all 
states except New York and New Englaiul? In keep- 
ing her schools open longer each year. 
1 

Which three of the 21 counties of X. J. showed in 
1890 a decrease, since 1880, in population? Hunterdon, 
3,215. or 8.34 per cent., i. c. 188(». 3S.:.7(t: 18lio. 3r).3o5. 
Sussex, 1.280, or 5.44 per cent., i. e. I88(i. 23,53l»: 1800, 
22,250. Warren. 30 decrease, i. e. 1880. 36.599: 1890, 
36.553. 

Which County between 1880-1890 showed an in- 
crease of 46.39 per cent? Hudson, while Atlantic and 
Passaic increased over 50 per cent.. Camden. Essex and 
Mercer over 33 and one-third per cent., and Bergen, 
Monmouth and Union over 25 per cent. — the increase 
of the entire State being 27.74 per cent., or 313,817. 

Which cities showed between 1880-1890 the largest 
percentage of increase? Atlantic City. Bayonne, Perth 
Amboy. Passaic and Trenton — the first named reach- 
ing 138.36 per cent.. an<l Trenton 92.10 per cent. New- 
ark gained 45.322. or 33.20 jier cent., and Jersey City 
42.281. or 35.02 per cent. Only two places. Bordentown 
and Lambertville. cities, showed decrease, and they 
only 26 .md 41 re'^pectively. 
5 

How far does the water w(»rks supply of Jersey City 
come? From the Passaic, at Belleville, eight miles — 
whence Newark once got her drinking water. 
6 

What, in 1895. were the leading products of New 
Brunswick? Paper, hosiery and India rublier. Its 
whole manufacturing output footed ui> about $20,000,000. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 189 

1 

Why did Elizabethtown settlers object to paying 
the Province Proprietors a half penny per acre as 
yearly rent from March 25, 1670? Because they claimed 
their lands "by civil and divine right", plus the Indian 
title. 

2 

Where, in Pennsylvania, had Paterson, in 1894, a 
branch of its silk mill business? Pottsville. Pa. 
3 

How much of New York City's refuse did Newark 
receive "for filling" in 1894? About 309 of its 3,237 
boat loads. 

4 

What is called the cradle of Presbyterianism in 
America? Freehold, where in 1692, the "Old Scots" 
Pres. church was erected. 

o 

How much less did the National Guard cose (est.) 
in 1895 than in 1894? $14,000, or $116,000. 
6 

What is the present name of the oldest resort — 
Deal Beach — on the N. J. Coast? Darlington — noted 
for its Hathaway Inn — celebrated 40 years ago. 
7 

Who, about 230 years ago, was the first to plant 
her dainty foot on Newark soil? Elizabeth Swaine, a 
girl of 19, the betrothed of Josiah Ward, who helped her 
to land — the favored one of the New Haven Colony of 
30 families. 

8 

From whom did Newark buy its land? Elizabeth, 
and the Indians. 

How did Newark — on its third birthday — get its 
name? From the birthplace in England, of their first 
minister. Pierson, who had just died. New Work is 
what the original name, in Latin (Novum Opus), of the 
place means. The name was selected at a "nail" meet- 
ing — where, after prayer, all the members were ordered 
to furnish their quota of nails for the new church 
(26x34) then in process of erection. That early gath- 
ering helped make Newark a "City of churches." 



190 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

Who was the first town clerk of Newark? Robert 
Treat, afterward governor of Connecticut. 
2 

What the cliicf business of Perth Aniboy — 21 
miles S. W. of X. Y.? Terra cotta fire-brick, chemicals, 
cork, emery, machinery, with lar^a- exports in i.irur ves- 
sels, by water of oil and coal. 
3 

What made Newark the seeming Ecclesiastical 
Metropolis of N. J.? The presence there for its first 
eight years — during which !•<» were graduated — (jf the 
College of New Jersev. 

4 

What did the words of Rev. Aaron Hurr about 
1741. "Let us have a College of our own", lead to? The 
founding. Nev. I>. 1747. in the first Presbyterian Church 
at Newark, of the College of New Jersey. 
5 

In what odd manner was the courtship and mar- 
riage of Rev. Aaron Burr ( Pres. of Princeton) con- 
ducted, at the age of M to the '2\ year old daughter of 
Jonathan E!d wards? First, a three days' visit in May 
17.Vi. to the girl at her home in Stockbridge. Mass. 
Two weeks later Mrs. Edwards and daughter are con- 
veyed to Newark by Burr's special agent, a college boy. 
Arrived Saturday eve. the couple are married the fol- 
lowing Monday evening. The mother describes the 
future \'ice-Pres. and marplot, born on Broad Street. 
Newark, thus: ".\aron is a little, dirty, noisy boy — 
very sly and mischievous — he is si)rightly. but not 
good-tempered — resolute, but reipiires a good gover- 
nor to bring him to terms." 

What has been said of the parsonage in Newark, 
where Aaron Burr was born and where, for •'»(> years 
(till 1S<»7) couples were married by Pastor McWhort«m. 
the successor of Fiurr's father? "In no other house in 
X. J. were so manv peoi)le ever m.ide happv or miser 
able." 

li 

When did the London Church Society deem it jie- 
ctss.irv to si-nd missionaries into X\\v lersev? In 17.'M. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 191 

1 

What other winter was nearly as cold as 1780, when 
New York harbor and Newark Bay were almost solid? 
1822, when North River at Jersey City was iced over 
for three days and a refreshment booth stood on the 
ice between the two cities. 
2 

Who was the first rector of the first Episcopal 
church of Newark? Uzal Ogden, a farmer and slave- 
owner — who went to England for his clerical quali- 
fications. But his negroes, who raised his corn and 
ate the hogs who ate the corn, were unable to support 
him too. 

3 

What sacrilege led to the founding of the Ogden 
(First) Epis. Church of Newark? The Sabbath-break- 
ing of Col. Josiah Ogden, who saved his grain from the 
wet on the Lord's Day — for which he was "tried" so 
hard, that he and his friends left the Church and started 
another. 

4 

When did three women (one 15) change their 
dresses and names and vote six times, and boys put on 
women's clothes, in order to duplicate their votes? At 
the election of 1807, appointed to settle where the Essex 
Co. Court House should be, and Newark won the day 
— though the very air between Newark and Elizabeth 
tasted bitter. For days school children were employed 
writing voting tickets for the Court House contest. 

5 

How long did Washington and his 3,500 soldiers 
stay in Newark in Nov. 1776 — when retreating before 
the British? Six days — and the day he left Newark, 
Cornwallis and his army brazenly entered from New 
York. 

6 

Who commanded the Newark Volunteers, enlisted 
to punish the British, who, quartered in the best houses 
of Newark, were committing all sorts of indignities? 
The fearless Capt. Little, whose men were dressed in 
frocks and trousers "dyed blue", the gift of Newark 
women. Hence the name "Jersey Blues." 



11»2 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

How did couples come to that great wedding-place 
— that priestly Gretna Green? On horseback, the bride 
behind the groom. 

2 

What noted Frenchmen once made the Ailing 
House, Newark, their home? Chautaubriand. and from 
1792-0 the exiled Tallyrand. who then taught French 
and made chairs. 

3 

Where was the first bank of Newark, if not N. J., 
started? In 1804 in Judge Burnett's parlor, on the 
mantle piece of which, as a terror to evildoers, two big 
knives and two bigger horse-pistols were conspicuously 
displaved. 

4 

\\'ith whom did Mrs. Washington, when journeying 
in " a chariot and four, with black postillions in scarlet 
and white liveries", spend the night of Nov. 29, 1775 — 
on her way from \'irginia to Cambridge. Mass.. to join 
her hus1)and? With Mrs. Kinney, the founder of the 
first Sabbath School in Newark. She escorted Mrs. 
Washington to Dobb's Ferry. 
5 

What was expected of patriots, when soldiers were 
billeted on people in Morristown, Hanover, etc.. during 
the Revolution? To take and support all men they 
could. One farmer at Whippeny took 12. but was asked 
to take 41; another, whose family consisted of !l. IkuI 
14 officers and men (juartered on him. 
G 

What was one of the Wallabout prison ships, the 
Old "Jersey", of the Revolution called? "The Hell" — 
and in its old hulk over l.<*00 prisoners were said to 
be living — or rather dying — as in a floating Libby 
or Andersonville — at one time. 
7 

When did a N. J. newspaper contain an edit«irial. 
complimenting the female voters of that State for voting 
so unanimously for John .\dams. in opposition to 
Thomas Jefferson, for President? In 1S0(» — and such 
history may repeat itself. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 193 

1 

How cold had tlie winter been for two months 
prior to Feb. 9, 1780? That sleighs had crossed the 
Delaw-are from Trenton to Philadelphia — something 
then unknown — and foot passengers and teams over 
the Hudson from Jersey City to New York. Snow 
two feet deep. 

2 

When was DeWitt Clinton, of New York, chal- 
lenged by Senator Dayton, of N. J., (a friend of Aaron 
Burr) to fight a duel? About 1823. 
3 

Which State Comptroller (afterward governor) is 
said to have saved the State, in 1865, $500,000? T. F. 
Randolph, who in 1871 quelled a Jersey City riot on 
the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. 
4 

When 'and where was the most infantile arrest in 
the U. S. made? At Egg Harbor City in July 18!)5, 
(for persistently throwing firecrackers on the 4th at 
a lady) a boy of five — whose father gave $100 bail fc^r 
his peace-keeping. 

5 

When was the fourth Bible Society in the U. S. 
organized? At Princeton — the first being at Phila- 
delphia; second Hartford and third at Boston — all 
in 1800. 

6 

How were the last days of Elias Boudinot, the first 

Pres. of the American Bible Society (organized 182(3), 

spent? In Biblical study and works of charity. One 

of his bequests was to buy spectacles for the aged poor. 

7 

Who was the first minister of the Reformed Dutch 
Church, who was not obliged to go to Holland for study 
and a license? Harderbergh. the first President (1785- 
00) of Rutger's College. During the Revolution he 
slept with loaded musket at his side — a British reward 
of £l<»r» being out for his arrest. 
8 

When did Anna E. Dickinson lecture in N. J- on 
''Woman's Work"? April I860. 



194 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JKRSEY. 

1 

Who became the third President of the College of 
N. J. during the last year of his life? Jonathan Ed- 
wards (born 1703. died 1758) the greatest of American 
theologians, who had, in June 17o0, been prohibited by 
a town-meeting vote from again entering the pulpit of 
Northhampton, Mass. — his offense being his efforts 
to discipline the youth of the church for reading imi)ure 
books. 

Which President of the College of N. J. had much 
difficulty in getting a license to preach in Hanover Co.. 
Va.? S. Davis — whose death, in 17«il, was hastened 
by the bleeding method of that day. 

Which President of Princeton was once tried and 
sentenced by a Connecticut grand jury to be carried 
out of the colony as a vagrant for preaching as an itin- 
erant, without the parish i)astor's consent? S. Findlay. 
the fifth President (17(il-(i(;). who was the first Pres. 
clergyman in America on whom D. D. was conferred 
— the University of Glasgow did it, in 17(13. 

What was the subject of the Latin inaugural Aug. 
17, 17<i8. of John Witherspoon, the sixth President of 
Princeton? "The Union of Piety and Science." 

How did Witherspoon raise money for the Col- 
lege of New Jersey when he became its President 
in 17«)8? By solicitations in an "address to the 
inhabitants of Jamica", etc.. and by a begging tour 
through New England, where he got $5,000. 

2 
What was the every morning greeting to the 1,000 
or 1,200 prisoners on the Jersey (Libby) prison ship 
of the Revolution? "Rebels, turn out your dead" — 
and those who had died from poisoned air and food 
during the night, were taken from the hold and buried 
in the sands of Wallabout Bay — where 11,500 patriot.^ 
perished. 

3 
What honor attached to Sergeants at law — an 
English grade — abolished in N. J. in 1830? Examin- 
ers of law students were chosen from that class. Gov. 
Dickerson was made an attorney in 181,3 — a counsellor 
in 1817, and a sergeant at law in 1S31. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 195 

1 

Where did Tammany, or Tamanend, after whom 
Tammany Society of New York was named, Hve and 
die? On the site of Princeton College — and it is 
said that Wm. Penn made a treaty with the chief, in 
1683. Another Tammany is said to have helped build 
the mounds in the valley of the Ohio — and been 
buried under one mound used as an Indian fort in the 
long ago. 

2 

In whom had the College of N. J. both a practicing 
physician and president for forty years? Jonathan 
Dickinson (1746-7.) 

3 

When did the N. J. churches separate from the 
Philadelphia (Pres.) Synod? In 1741. 
4 

Who was the author of the ''Newark (Lat.) Gram- 
mar", long in use at Princeton? Aaron Burr, the 
second President (1748-1757) of the College of N. J. 
5 

What caused the untimely death, Feb. 16, 1862, of 
Gov. Pennington? A druggist's mistake. 
6 

What did Gov. Wm. Livingston do soon after he 
joined, in 1786, the New York Society for Slave Eman- 
cipation? Free the only two slaves he had. 
7 

Which governor has the distinction of being the 
first elected by the people? Charles C. Stratton (1844- 
48) the farmer governor of Gloucester Co. 

Who. up to 1854, was the youngest man honored 
with the governorship? R. M. Price. 

Which governor of N. J. held the opinion that a 
large part of the business of New York would ultimately 
be done on the N. J. side of the Hudson? R. M. Price. 

Which governor so excelled as a military man 
that New Jersey's war quota was always full, and as a 
financier that not a bond of N. J. was sold below par 
during the war? Joel Parker, the 22nd governor — 
through whom the State had $200,000 in its treasury 
in 1865 when the war closed. 



ll'O HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NKW JKRSKV. 

1 

How many children had the first governor of N. J. 
by tlie wife with whom he hved happily for 4o years r 
Nineteen, of whom seven survived him — and one was 
Brockholst Livingston, a New York lawyer. State Su- 
preme Judge, and for 10 years one of the justices of the 
U. S. Supreme Court. 

2 
Which governor of X. J. was once arrested for 
treason — because his acts were mysterious? Howell, 
wlu) had resigned from the army tiiat he might act as 
Washington's secret service agont. At the sight, how- 
ever, of his commission from Gen. Washington, th^ 
judge released him and ordered all minutes in the ca><, 
expunged. 

Which one of the subsecjuent governors (tf X. J. 
was once the bearer of a message from Washington to 
Sir Henry Clinton — with tiie humane offer to ex- 
change Alajor .Andre f(jr Gen. Benedict .\rnold? 
Aaron Ogden. in ITT'.i. 

3 
Who was the best Whig leader X. J. ever had" 
Gov. Pennington — who with Chas. O'Connor, of Xew 
York, won in the will case oi Win. Jaunncy. the mil- 
lionaire Jerseyman. 

4 
In what order were the general officers President 
of the Society of the Cincinnati? Gen. Washington. 
Alex. Hamilton. C. C. Pincknev. Thomas Pincknev. 
Col. (Gov.) Aaron Ogden. l?<2!»-is;i!». 

5 
How did Gov. Aaron Ogden sink his entire fortune 
— at the close of his life? In the litigation growing om 
of his attempt to run a steamboat l)etween Kli/abeth 
town and Xew ^'ork — in opposition to Fulton and 
Livingston, who owned the patent to Xew York Stale 
waters. 

6 
What did the gallant Phil. Kearney leave, when he 
went to beat down the gates of Mexico? The luxuries 

of a $1. <»(>(». » fortune. His ancotors had the beiietit 

of the John Watts (Xew York) and Lewis Morris ((lov 
of X. J.) family blood. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 197 

1 

What excited the curiosity of a man from Maine, 
who had come 1'2(M) miles on horseback — as he saw, 
Dec. 17, 1703 — the factories at Passaic Falls? A cot- 
ton factory, cost $500,000 — 500 men — 10.000 spindles 
— run by one water wheel — spinning 200 pounds a 
day — dropping 50 rolls a minute — spin 44 threads at 
once — weave 30 yards a day. Also a linen factory — 
four miles from the other — where one man spins with 
488 spools. 

2 

When was the State without a seal and compelled 
to use the seal and arms of its governor until a State 
seal could be procured? During the first years of the 
governorship of its first governor, Livingston, who 
was re-elected without opposition till the day of his 
death — 1790. 

3 

What style of repartee was indulged in by the first 
governor of N. J., who was bitterly hated by the 
Tories, who called him "Spain's Governor", "Don 
Quixote of the Jerseys", "Despot in Chief over the 
Rising State of N. J.". "Knight of the Most Honorable 
Order of Starvation and Cliief of the Independents", 
etc.? "If Rivington (of Rivington's Gazette) I must 
have one of his ears; Gov. Clinton, another, and Geo. 
Washington, if he pleases, may take his head." 

4 

Who introduced the "Lecture System" into the 
colonies? Witherspoon, the sixth President (17(18-94) 
of Princeton. Arrested in 1746 as an onlooker at the 
Battle of Tralkirk, Scotland, where, in 17G2, he was 
fined for mentioning names in a sermon — "he became 
an American the moment he landed" in this country. 

Whose efforts to collect money in England, for 
Princeton, in 1783-4, were opposed by Jay and Frank- 
lin as "unpromising and undignified"? Those of With- 
erspoon, its president, whose speculation in Vermont 
land caused his financial ruin. 

How radical was John Witherspoon, the signer of 
the Declaration? Would rather be hanged than desert 



198 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

his country's cause. The colonies were ripe for inde- 
pendence, and were rotting for want of it, he said. 

Which President of Princeton was in the habit of 
writing his prayers? The eighth. Ashbel Green, who 
in 184G — at tlie age of 84 — faced an immense assembly 
which, in Philadelphia, rose to do him honc^r. 

How much was subscribed f(jr Princet<jn between 
18(J8-1888? $3.UU0,U00, when its students increased 
from 260 to GOO, or over. 

When was N. J. alarmed for a few days lest some 
Princeton students — despite the college yell — had 
fallen before the murderous Bannocks, of the West? 
In July 18!>5, when a man was sentenced 20 years for kill- 
ing a Princeton student. 

What said a Harvard, Mass., paper in 1805 of the 
Princeton College measure — copying that of the Uni- 
versity of Virginia in 1840 — against cheating at exam- 
inations? "Worth more than twenty victories at foot- 
ball." 

1 

What killed H. Schmidt — aged 7u — of Ilaledon, 
in Aug. 18!'5? A bee sting. 
2 

When had N. J. the biggest cranberry cr(jp known? 
In 1893, and 1895 seemed like unto it. 
3 

Where stood, in 1895, a monument to Gov. W. 
A. Newell for "his" Life Saving Service? On Bradley 
Beach, at Asbury, where, in 1854, the "Xcw Era" was 
wrecked, wnth 300 lost souls aboard. 
4 

When did the destruction, by fire, of a branch of 
the tin trust, at Newark, involve a half million dollar 
loss? Aug. 12. 1895. 

5 

Where was Dr. Tallmadge stationed before his 
meteoric advent as a lecturer? Beverlv, N. J. 
6 

When was the site of Asbury Park owned by one 
man? In 1870, and in 1895 he owned its mile of beach, 
dotted with 2,800 bath houses along 5.280 feet of plank 
walk. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 199 

1 

What showed the extent of the hat industry in the 
Orange district? That a demand, Aug. 14, '95, of the 
Furnishers' Association for higher prices would aftect 
forty factories. 

2 

Whence came the brick used in the Schuyler man- 
sion, built opposite Bellville, during last century? 
From Holland, and the mortar then used was a year 
old. The owner. Arent Schuyler, bought a large tract 
of land there in 1695 — over 200 years ago. 
3 

Who was the first mayor of Albany, N. Y.? Col. 
Peter Schuyler, the brother of Arent Schuyler. 
4 

Who came over to run the engine brought in 17()1 
from England, to work the Schuyler mines? Engineer 
Joseph Hornblower, the father of Chief Justice Horn- 
blower, of Newark. 

5 

What besides 'T60 head of deer" did a visiting of- 
ficer see, in 1776, at Col. John Schuyler's residence, on 
the Passaic? Many servants, besides 50 or 60 negro 
slaves. 

6 

Where was the home of Gov. Livingston, who 
guided the ship of State during the Revolution? At 
Elizabeth, and its name "Liberty Hall." 
7 

What was the nucleus of the first Presbyterian 
church of Orange? The "Mountain Society" — New- 
ark Mountain — of 1718. 

8 

What led to a radical difference between Newark 
and Elizabeth, both founded by Puritans? The im- 
portation of believers in the Divine right of kings — 
from England and Scotland. 
9 

In what general directions do the railroads of the 
State run? In Northern N. J. from N. E. to S. W.; 
in Southern N. J. from N. W. to S. E. — the chief 
railroad centers being in Camden and Hudson counties. 



200 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSF.V. 

1 

Wliich three counties come to a point near Bell- 
ville — un the Passaic? Bergen. Elssex. Hudson. 
2 

What Xcwark steam engine invent(jr was awarded 
$l(Hi. (HH» by the New York Legislature for success in 
applying steam in propelling canal boats? Baxter. 

a 

What ancient hostelry in Newark had for its sign 
a pack of hounds and iiunter pursuing a panting fox? 
The GifTord House — the headciuarters for sports and 
men of the chase. 

4 

What instruction did Gen. Gumming, the N. J. 
mail-coach ccnitractor. give his negro coach-driver — 
when P. M. Gen. Gideon Granger, enroute from New 
York to Washington — on an inspection tour — canie 
aboard? To drive like Jehu — to impress his superior 
with the celerity of the service and the badness of the 
roads. So over the Corduroy roads Sam1)o urged his 
steed, with whip and voice, at fearful si)eed. Repeat- 
edly, in alarm. Granger poked his head out and be- 
sought the driver to go slower — but Sambo simply 
replied: "I can't do it. sir; I drive the United States 
Mail". — and away the coach went. 1)umping the U. S. 
official — till more dead than alive. 

5 

What was called, in Feb. 1S!*(I, a national disaster? 
The invasi<Hi. by a trolly car comiKiny. n\ Caldwell — 
the birthplace of a President. 

G 
What comment did the jiress make on the fact that 
it cost the St. Paul about !M»M».O0(t "m get stuck" on the 
handsome New Jersey Coast in I'eb. ISltti? "Costly 
Valentine — beware of vidders." 

7 
In which other states, besides N. J., was Feb. 12. 
Lincoln's birthday, a legal holiday in 1S9«>? New York. 
Illinois. Minnesota and Washington. It is called l)y 
the Sons of Veterans of the U. S. "I'^nion Defender's 
Day." 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. '201 

1 

What was "Wizard Edison" doing at West Orange 
Feb. 11, '9G? Photographing the human brain ijy 
means of the newly discovered "X-ray", emanating 
from a Crookes vacuum tube. 
2 

Which graduate of Princeton, in war tin;es, a far- 
mer's boy borrowing books to get his legal education, 
was, in 189(5, promoted from a .f^Jn.OOO salary as railroad 
attorney, to the presidency of the road, salary .$40,000? 
J. K. Cowan. 

3 

What caused the destruction, about 90 years ago, 
of the old village of Boonton, where, in 1770, was estab- 
lished the first nail mill in the country? The bursting 
of a dam. 

4 

Which now fashionable Maine resort was granted 
(with $6,500 a year) in 1762, to an Ex. Gov. of N. J.? 
yit. Desert Island — to Francis Bernard, a patron of 
Harvard College. 

5 

What was the estimated population, in 1896, on the 
185 square miles, whose center is Central Park, N. Y.? 
4,000,000 people, very many of whom were New Jersey- 
ans, and New Yorkers in New Jersey. 
6 

What comment did Gov. Griggs make in his mes- 
sage of Jan. 21, 1896, on the immense mass of statute 
laws entailed by loose legislation on the State? The 
forthcoming three volumes, of 1,000 pages each, are in 
bulk thrice as large as the General Statutes of the U. S. 
— so as to be almost beyond the power of the legal 
mind to acquire it or the judicial mind to interpret it. 
7 

What implied notice, or warning, did Gov. Griggs 
serve, Jan. 21, 1896, on the Legislature? That he would 
not approve trifling or unnecessary legislation. 
8 

What addition to "the palaces" of N. J. was talked 
of in Jan. 1896? A $500,000 one at Lakewood for the 
Goulds. 



■202 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

What was the estimated membership of the Bicycle 
division of wheelmen, known as the Trenton Club, 
when in Jan. 1896 it was talking of Toledo, O., for its 
annual meet, or rendezvous? About 2,400. 



Why did a man who had lived a hermit for 30 years 
in Warren Co., go to his home in Sussex Co. on Jan 21, 
1896? Because of a vow made in Gov. Ward's time, 
that he would live alone till another Republican gover- 
nor was elected. 

3 

What, besides Sunday papers, did the Methodist 
Conference at Newark April 1, 1896, denounce? Sun- 
day bicycle riding. 

4 

What comment was made in Ohio on the efifort in 
N. J. to preserve the birthplace house of Pres. Cleve- 
land at Caldwell? That Grant's infancy cabin stood 
solitary and unprotected in the State Fair grounds at 
Columbus. 

5 

How did Wisdom and Foolishness stare each other 
almost in the face, the same day, in April 1896? At 
Paterson, where a woman trapped a burglar by locking 
him in a closet, and at New Brunswick, where a drunken 
farmer put a lighted cigar in his pants pocket and cre- 
mated himself. 

6 

Where was "Uncle Noah" — aged 124 — the oldest 
man in N. J., living in April 1896? In the Poorhouse of 
Middlesex Co., on a diet of bread and milk, rice and 
fish. At same time the oldest inhabitant — 102 years — 
of Cumberland Co. died. A walk of ten miles on a 
stretch was his delight. 

7 

What of "Blind Charley", who died, aged m. in 
New Brunswick in April 1896? He was "the local his- 
torian", and knew every foot of ground in the place — 
and up to the time of his marriage, ten years previous, 
never slept in a bed, and used neither light nor heat in 
his room, and never felt the cold. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 203 

1 

What was called the highest flight ever made by a 
kite^ That of Nov. 7, 1893, at Bayonne, when two miles 
of cord were used in flying tandem kites, one of which 
reached an altitude of 5,595 feet A storm swept two 
kites and 3,000 feet of line into Newark Bay. 
2 

What did a Princeton professor say, March 10 
1896 of Perrine's comet, which alarmists said would 
strike the earth - but which passed earth's plane i^eb 
25, '96? "It will never be visible to earth s inhabitants 
again." ^ 

How long had minister Tompkins been pastor at 
Long Branch when he died in March 1896? About 23 
years — nearly half his life. 
4 

When was the Great Search Light used at the 
World's Fair, Chicago, placed 165 feet above sea level, 
on the Barn^gat Light House? In 1896 - sending its 
rays nearly 19 miles seaward. 
5 

How old was McClellan when nominated for the 
presidency? Only 38, and when governor of the State, 

— years. 

6 
When was "an Astor" divorced at Trenton by 
Chancellor McGill? In March 1896 - when the two 
year old Coleman-Dayton case was decided. 
7 
When had a Princeton professor celebrated his 50th 
year of service in that seat of learning? March 3, 189b. 
8 
Where did Geo. S. Coe — a New York bank presi- 
dent - financial adviser of Pres. Lincoln, and origin- 
ator of the Clearing House Certificate System, die in 
May 1896? At Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 
9 
What made the thread companies of N. J and 
Scotland of one mind and strand? Their consolidation 
in May 1896. 



204 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

What was the boast of A. S. Fuller, who. for 25 
years, had been a noted writer on horticulture and en- 
tomology? That surrounding his home, at Ridgewood. 
where he died May 181>(3, were growing trees from all 
parts of the world. 

2 

What notable literary men died in N. J. the same 
day — May 11. 18!><;? Bunner. editor of "Puck" (estab. 
1877). at Xutley. and Urner. of "Price Current" fame, 
at Fenwood. 

3 

What was the estimated value of the advertising in 
New Jersey and other American papers during 1895? 
Over $100.00O.O(M>. 

4 

What, in April 18!<0, was called "a sign of the times" 
by Western papers? A mock Republican National 
Convention — in which all the states were "repre- 
sented", including "favorite sons" — the first vote be- 
ing McKinley 2<h> and Reed 183 — when a Harrison 
stampede set in. at the instatice of a loving Delaware 
maid. 

What queer-named places or towns in Ocean ant! 
other counties? Double-Trouble. Seven Stars. Mount 
Misery. Ongs Hat. Old Half-Way. Butterfly Bridge. 
Alligator. Mos(juito Cove. Mary Ann Furnace. Calico 
and Martha. Sandtown, Tumble. Fox Chase. Old Hur- 
ricane. Lower Squankum. Pestletown. Zubs Bridge, 
Bargaintown. Prospertown and Success. 

«; 

When did Freehold have a wonderful case of sus- 
pended animation? In Ai)ril 18!»0 — when the shriek 
of the corpse nearly killed the watchers. 

Why was April 12, 18%. called "a dry Sunday" in 
Jersey City and Long Branch? Because of the Fxcise 
Law. 

8 

How manv sheep- had N. J. Jan. 1. 1805? .\bout 
40,rK>0. worth *]f - *•'•■'■ h 



THLNGS XEW AXD OLD. 'J:t)b 

1 

What meant the newspaper heading • 
1896 — "Threaded for Life"? The Unio- . _. 1 

iron — in the marriage of the miliionair- ^Ker's 

daughter, at Newark, to a Glasgow ir ,nt. in 

view of 1,000 gnests. 

2 

How many relatives were present April '2»>. 18y6, 
at Terrell. Gloucester Co.. when "Aunt Hannah" 
(Chard), "the oldest woman in X. J.", celebrated her 
l<)Sth birthday? Besides three sons (youngest •^Jo' 32 
grandchildren, 82 great-grandchildren, ard 12 great- 
great-grandchildren — while hundreds came in many 
directions to pay her respects. 
3 

What penalty was imposed, in April 1896. at Perth 
Amboy. for killing a robin? Tine of |^20. and sent to 
jail for non-payment — at the instance of State Game 
Warden. 

4 

Wh^- was every school in X. T. engaged Apnl li. 
1896. in setting out some kind of tree. vine. herb, or 
plant? Because the law made it :' ' r v: —- on every 
teacher to thus observe Arbor Day 
5 

^^^le^ did Princeton College celebrate the lo«!»ih 
anniversar>- of its founding in ■"- - ■ ' ' er 2'>. 18:>i»- 

How does Princeton rar. _ z the five 

colleges existing in the c- - - ■-•ri 

How does Princeton . L r :.- 
ration of Independence? - - ^ :. Col- 

lege President who signed th:: rnt. 

By whom was the "Large S.-.. ^;:i "Small State" 
controversy in forming the \I . S. Constiiution 3.micably 
settled? Largely by Princeton grav:?.:e- :'- -: X J. 
and Connecticut, then ui Congress. 
6 

WTio first appointed Mercer Beaslev (who died in 
Trenton. Feb. 19. 1897. aged 81\ O-.-e" T:.:::e^ "el 
Parker, in 1864. and governors -R - 

and Abbon re-appointed him, his : . 



20G HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

When was the dynamite Cruiser '^Vesuvius" sent 
along the N. J. and Southern shore to destroy danger- 
ous old vessel hulks? In Jan. 1895. 
2 

When did the Supreme Court of N. J. deny woman 
admission to the bar, "as against reason and authority"? 
In Jan. 1895. 

8 

What did "the Advance Agent of Prosperity" do 
in Feb. 1897, to a Paterson iron company, which had 
been in business for 45 years? Forced it to retire. 
4 

During what period had no Republican governor 
been elected in N. J.? 1865-1895. 
5 

What was called, in Feb. 1897, "a grand engineer- 
ing scheme"? The redemption of 27,000 acres of tide- 
overflowed marsh land near Jersey City, at a cost of 
$40 to $2500 an acre — the tract having "seven to fifteen 
feet of peat, wood and valuable vegetable matter in or 
on it." 

G 

How did the religious denominations of N. J. rank 
according to the U. S. census of 1890? Catholics. 223,- 
274; Methodists, 96,377; Presbyterians. 59,464; Bap- 
tists. 89,760; Episcopalians, 30,429; Lutherans. 12.878; 
Congregationalists, 4,912; Disciples, 105. Total, 508,- 
851. 

What was the seating capacity — what the value — 
of the 2,204 church edifices in N. J. in 1890? 803,017, 
and $20,490,414. 

7 

When and where were bread and beer in large lots 
sent by trolly about 15 miles to market? In Hudson 
Co. in Nov. 1895. 

8 

When were members of the N. J. State Guard sta- 
tioned 16 miles apart — at Eagle Rocks. Orange Moun- 
tain, N. J., and at the Produce Exchange, New York 
City — for the purpose of signalling each other by the 
heliograph process? Nov. 16, 1895. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 207 
1 

What was called "following a friend" in Jersey City. 

Feb. 24, 1897? The suicide of James Stevens, a butcher, 

because one Childs, his bosom friend of 25 years, had 
suicided. 

2 

When was the P. O. of Summit, N. J., robbed of 

$5,000 in stamps and $500 in money? In Nov. 1895. 
3 

Population (where over 3,000) of cities and towns 
of New Jersey, for 1870, 1880 and 1890: 

1870 1880 1890 

Atlantic City 1,043 5,477 13,038 

Bayonne 9,372 18,996 

Bordentown 4,258 5,045 

Bridgeton 6,830 8,722 11.471 

Burlington 5,817 6,090 8,198 

Camden 20,045 41,659 58,274 

Chambersburg 5,437 

Elizabeth 20,832 28,229 37,670 

Gloucester 3,682 5,347 6,563 

Hackensack 4,248 6,014 

Harrison 4,129 6,898 8,528 

Hoboken 20,297 30,999 43,561 

Jersey City 82,546 120,722 163,987 

Lambertville 3,842 4,183 4,15& 

Millville 6,101 7,660 9,957 

Morristown 5,418 8.156 

Newark 105,059 136,508 181,518 

New Brunswick 15,058 17.166 18,459' 

Orange 9,348 13.207 18.774 

Passaic 6,532 13,027 

Paterson 33,579 51,031 78,358 

Perth Amboy 2,861 4,808 9,476 

Phillipsburg 7,181 8,642 

Plainfield 5,095 8.125 11.250 

Rahway 6.258 6.455 7.090 

Salem 4.515 5,056 5,11^ 

Trenton 12.874 29.940 58,488 

Union 4,640 5,849 10,643 

Vinelana 2.549 4,0()8- 

Woodbury 1,965 2,298 3,867 



208 



HISTORICAI. HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 



Area in square miles of the 21 counties of New 
Jersey: 



Atlantic 565 

Bergen 235 

Burlington Sui) 

Camden 22t> 



Cape May.. 
Cumberland 

Essex 

Gloucester . 
Hudson . . . . 
Hunterdon . 
jMercer . . . . 



5U5 
127 
32(i 
43 
43-1 



Middlesex 310 

Monmouth 475 

:\Iorris 470 

Ocean 578 

Passaic 197 



Salem . . 
Somerset 
Sussex .. 
Union . . 
Warren . 



340 
303 
525 
102 
300 



How much less population had "The Jerseys" in 
1701 than 1800? 1.420.933 (1.444,933-15.(M)(>). 
3 

When was the first State Constitution formed? 
July 2, 177(). and though it took only two days to make 
it, it remained in force until a new one was adopted 
June 29, 1844. 

4 

When was the word "State" substituted for 
"Colony" by New Jersey? September 2n, 1777, by a 
special act of the Assembly. 
5 

WHiere and when was the !>."ir(l annual conference 
of the Seventh Day Baptists held? At Plain field. Aug. 
21, 1895. 

(i 

When did 15<> descendants of the Edward Phelps 
who came to Ohio from Windsor. Conn., in ISoii. meet 
in Ohio to celebrate the lineage which included W'm. 
Walter Phelps, of N. J.. E. J. Phelps, Ex. Min. to 
England, etc.? Aug. 22. IS!).',. 



What. occurrence of Aug. 22. 18!>5. did a X. J. far- 
mer call a miracle? That tin. cut ha>- on his farm, near 
Caldwell, was untouched by a rain that delugi'd all the 
farms around him. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 209 

1 

What document bearing date April 1753, was found 
in a pile of waste paper in Sept. 1895, at Oakland, Cal.? 
A deed from Morris to Grant, of the site on which 
Rahway is built. 

2 

When did the "Ten Dollar Coffin Society" lose a 
member at Vineland? In 1895 — and the noted Bible- 
hater was hauled to his atheistic resting-place in a com- 
mon wagon. 

3 

What rival candidates were named in Sept. 1895 
for governor? Ex. Sen. J. W. Griggs (Rep.), and 
Chancellor A. E. McGill (Dem.). 
4 

Who took Blaine's place in Garfield's cabinet when 
Arthur became President? F. T. Frelinghuysen. 
5 

What were the 184,000 hogs in N. J. Jan. 1, 1895. 
estimated worth? $1,748,000, or $9.50 each. 

What were the 192,000 Milch cows of N. J. worth 
Jan. 1, 1895? $6,528,000, or $34.00 each. 

What were the 40,000 other cattle in the State Jan. 
1, 1895, worth? $1,176,000, or $24.00 each. 

What total value was put on the 88.000 N. J. horses 
Jan. 1. 1895? $6,424,000, average $73 each. 

How many mules were there in N. J. Jan. 1, 1895? 
About 8,000, worth $68,000, or $85 each. 
6 

How were some letters written from Stockbridge, 

Mass., in 1752, addressed? To "New Ark, in the 

Jerseys." 

7 

Where in N. J. was a farmer attacked, wounded and 
routed by owls? On High Hill, near Dayton — while 
stripping, ni 1895, a veteran chestnut tree. 
8 

What plans were before the Legislature in Jan. 
1895, to preserve the Palisades? (1) To buy back all 
riparian rights sold within past 30 years, and (2) to sell 
no more such rights. Circulars addressed to every 
Palisade-lover were sent broadcast over the U. S. 



210 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

How many cities and towns of X. J. have business 
Directories? About 40. 

•> 

What credits did the U. S. census of 1890 give N. J. 
for orchard products? Bushels: Apples, <J03.8U0; Apri- 
cots, 2; Cherries. 0,702; Peaches, 770.078; Pears, 80,- 
•064; Plums and Prunes, 017 l)ushels. 
3 
What the number and amount of real estate mort- 
gages in force in X. J., Jan. 1, 18!>0? $141.7(>4. for .t232,- 
565,918. on 25.197 acres, and 110,5o7 lots. Average un- 
paid amount of each mortgage. .*5;1.041. Average rate 
of interest on the mortgages, 5.73 per cent. 
4 
How much more railroad mileage (single track) 
had X. J. in 1890 (2052.36) than in 1880 (1648.92)? 403.- 
44 miles. 

5 
How many of the 17 Express companies in the U. 
S. are chiefly in X. J.? The Camden and Atlantic — 
mileage 78.93 — and West Jersey Express — mileage 
operated, 245.00. 


What was the 11th census estimate of the cost in 
construction and improvement of the three X. J. canals 
(length 171.02 miles and 47 locks)? $10.!»29.74o, or 
about $64,000 a mile. 

What was the net income (v. 11th census report) 
from the canals of X. J. with their 314 tow-boats, worth 
$92,275? $33,604.56. 

What i)er cent, of the i)eople of N. J. were church 
members in IS'MI? .35.18. or 508.351 (U. S. census.) 
8 

Where was the second paper mill of Wm. Bradford, 
who established, in 1690. the "first" one on this conti- 
nent, at Ro.xborough. on Paper Mill Run. near Phila- 
delphia? .\t Elizabethport. X. J. 
9 

What was Xcw Jersey's increase in population from 
1880-1890? About 28 per cent. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 'ill 

1 

What was the aggregate capital of the 9:221 manu- 
facturing establishments doing business in N. J. in 
1890? $249,890,4-'8. 

2 

How much direct coast line has N. J. About I'Jj 
miles. 

:^ 
Which is the "garden" portion — the fruit l£den — 
of N. J.? On a line between Camden and Amboy. 
4 
How much did the manufactures of N. J. in 1890 
exceed those of 1850? $347,000,000, the latter being 39, 
and the former 386 million dollars. Amounts in 18()0, 
$76,000,000; 1870, $169,000,000, and 1880. $254,000,000. 
5 
Up to what time was the sugar and molasses pro- 
duct ahead of other industries? Until 1880. when thev 
were $23,000,000. but in 1890 silk alone jumped to s25'- 
000,000. The next states in rank in silk product are 
New York and Ohio. 

6 
W^iich governor of N. J. won special honor for 
his efforts to "save the Palisades"? Gov. Werts. in 
Jan. 1895. 

7 
How many places, besides Jersey "City", in the 
U. S., have the word "city" attached? About 86o. 
8 
What did the N. J. State Board of Arbitration cost 
in a single year? $12,000, with little seeming return. 
9 
What is the object of the South Jersey Woodman's 
Association, of May's Landing? To improve and pro- 
tect forests in the South Jersey counties. 

10 
Who was the oldest woman in N. J. in Feb. 18')5? 
Hannah Chard, born at Ferrell. near Glassboro, April 
20, 1788. Good memory, great smoker, and five gener- 
ations of descendants agreed to celebrate her bhth 
birthday. 



'2]'2 HISTf)RICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JKRSHV. 

1 

How many of the 5(j fire insurance companies of N. 
J. did business, in 18!H). out of the State? 14. 

What figures, as to N. J. fire insurance companies 
(13 classes), are in the U. S. Census Report of 18!»»»? 
Risks written. ^228.2!>4.214. and premiums. $2,148.:371. 

A 
When was a "heavy" bread law passed by the N. J. 
Legislature? In 18!).j — each loaf to "weigh" a pound. 
4 
What weapons of war did a challenged N. J. editor 
once name? "Pen and Ink", with which he proposed 
to plunge his opponent into the "Black Sea", or sea 
of ink. 

What of the hitherto unknown insect, like a hornet, 
which appeared at Mil ford, in Sept. 18!>7? It was called 
"the locust killer" — because it destroyed and lugged 
to its burrow about I'M) locusts a day. 
G 

WHiat was Edison's force of 400 men and 20 teams 
doing in Aug. 1807 at West Portal? Erecting a plant 
to separate iron from the ore by magnetism. 

What novel exchange was made in an Episcopal 
church at Netherwi^od in Aug. 18!>7. The pastor's sub- 
stitute, a banker, society actor and leader, delivered 
the sermons prepared for him. 
8 

What of the Transcontinental Railwav. capital 
|!200,O(M>.O0(>, organized in Illinois, in 18!):)? ' In Sept. 
1897 it was planmng an electric elevated — to run from 
Jersey City to Chicago by daylight, at the rate of ltH> 
luilrs an hour. 

9 

What were the game laws for 18!M)-7? Rabbits and 
quail, Nov. 10 to Jan. 1 ; woodcock, grouse and part- 
ridge, July and Oct. to Dec. 1 ; snipe. March, .\pril and 
Sept.: reed and rail birds and scpiirrel. Sei)t. and Nov. 
10 to Dec. lO; ])l<)ver and i)igeons. .Aug. and Sept. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 213 

1 

What was a Trenton iron company figuring on, in 
Aug. 1897? The cable road to the crater of Popocata- 
petl — for lessee of the sulphur deposits there. 
2 

What of the gray horse, which broke loose, Sept. 
1897, in a freight car, at Trenton? He kicked and killed 
nine of his horse companions. 
3 

Which two counties were, in 1897, of the "first 
class" — having over 100,000 inhabitants? Hudson and 
Essex; and Passaic, Camden, Mercer, Union, Alon- 
mouth, Middlesex, Bergen, Morris and Burlington 
were of the second class, i. e. with population from 
50,000 to 100,000 each. 

Which two cities were, in 1897, of the first class, 
i. e. with population over 100,000? Newark and Jersey 
City — while Paterson, Camden, Trenton, Hoboken, 
Elizabeth, Orange, New Brunswick, Bayonne, Passaic, 
Plainfield, Bridgeton and Perth Amboy were of the 
second class, with population 50,000 to 100,000 each. 

How are "burroughs" classified? First class with 
population over 3,000. Second class — population 
1,500 to 3,000. Third class — population less than 
1,500. 

4 

Why did Columbus, O., papers say Sept. 1897: 
"The town of Lincoln, N. J., is ruled by women"? Be- 
cause the President of its Council and two of the mem- 
bers were women, and were coming to attend the meet- 
ing of Mayors and Councilmen to be held there. Lin- 
coln, named after Old Abe, is in Middlesex Co., and 
was started in April 1897. 

5 

How did Blair, of Blairstown, worth say $70,000,- 
000, earn his first dollar? Selling muskrat skins (a la 
Astor) as a lad of ten, when working on a Delaware 
River farm, near Belvidere, where he was born. 
6 

What arrangement between May and December 
caused jeers and sneers Aug. 31, '97? The marriage 
of a 72 year old man and girl of teens, at Elizabeth. 



214 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NRW JPIRSKV. 

1 

When did the Mother House of Dominican Sister^. 
at Hoboken. whose chief duty is perpetual adoration — 
plant a branch at Milwaukee, Wis.? Sept. 1S!I7. 
•> 

What was the estimate, in Aug. lf^!>7, that X. J. 

had spent in the previous six years for good roads? 

About sl.4<>o.oo(i for .?<»<) miles — mostly macadam — 

and she had the solid, permanent works to show for it. 

■■\ 

What item — with an X. J. tlavor — was cpioted, 
Aug. 1."). 18il7. in a Xew York paper? One in the Weekly 
Post-Boy — of Ang. lo, 1747 — loO years previous — 
stating that "a Jersey wench" had been arrested for 
stealing "Joo ])ounds and shipped as a sentence to 
Canada. 

4 

How was the mammoth hatter. McLoughlin — of 
S. Orange — who weighed over .'i(Hi j)ounds — got out 
of the house for burial. Aug. 25. 18!I7? In coftin low- 
ered by ropes from second story window. 

To what, in 1S!I7. was an Kli/.abeth restaurautcr's 
failure attributed? To adding the French e to '"a la 
cart" — his mark when i)ed(lling cakes with a cart. 
(J 

Who is said to have given ^fi.OOO.OOO to a seminary 
bearing his name? Blair, of Blairstown. !•'» years old. 
Aug. 22. 18!)7. Once president of 2<» railrc^ads and cor- 
porations — he built the initial stri]) which became the 
D. L. and W. road. 

7 

Why did a HOO day convict at Trenton fight the 
officers wanting liim, in 18!H), to take off his stripes and 
leave? Because he preferred tf) stay in jail for life. 
H 

What of the new Xew Jersey Miss (^r midget, whose 
picture was so prominent in New York papers about 
Dec. 18. 18!)(i? She hailed from Cannlen — was V^ 
inches tall — and with fo()t one and one-half inch long, 
could stand in a tumbler or on a silver half doll.ir. 



THINGS NEW AND OT.D. 215 

1 

What novel method was introchiced into Bridge- 
ton, Dec. 18l>6, by a burly tramp for paying his board? 
Going from hotel to hotel, "beating" the proprietor till 
he was ready to call the account square. 
2 

When did a granddaughter of Admiral Porter chris- 
ten the gunboat Annapolis, launched at Elizabethport? 
Dec. 23, 1896 — about the time Roswell G. Horr — a 
celebrated tariff writer, died at Plainfield. and was 
buried at Wilmington, Ohio. 
3 

How did an ex lady teacher, of Friendship, earn 
a living in 1896 out of a 20 acre swamp? By the culti- 
vation of frogs, whose legs are sold in the city markets. 
4 

When were seven lives lost in Sunday fires at Ho- 
bcken? Jan. 31, '97. 

5 

What brought "peace after 35 years spent in a legal 
war"? The re-incorporation, March 3, 1797, of the N. 
J. Zinc Co., capital $10,000,000. including the N. J. Zinc 
and Iron, of Newark, the Passaic Zinc Co., the Le- 
high (South Bethlehem, Pa.) Zinc Co., and the Mineral 
Point, (Wis.) Zinc Co. 

6 

Why were the New York "World" and "Journal", 
in Feb. 1897, ousted from the Newark Free Library 
rooms? Because their "new journalism" was deemed 
vicious and degrading. 

7 

When did "a Cuban Expedition" get away from 
Barnegat? Early in March 1897. 
8 

Which State keeps as a relic the law diploma of 
Aaron Burr? Ohio, at Columbus. 
9 

What Paterson boy of 12 received an appointment 
at the hands of President McKinley the first day of 
his term? Hobart, son of the Vice-President, to take 
charge of the electric bells of the White House — elec- 
tricity being the boy's specialty. 



210 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NPZW JERSEY. 

1 

When did a Camden man advertise to sell his body 
to some medical college? In April 18l»7. when a New 
York girl sold her middle finger to another woman, 
needing it, for $1,OOU, that she might acquire a musical 
education. 

2 
When had fire been raging for three davs in the 
N. J. pine beh. near Mt. Holly? April 28. 18!»7. 

:J 
Who were the only three survivor.s, April 18!>7. of 
Grant's cal)inet? Geo. M. Robeson. J. D. Cox. of Ohio, 
and Boutwell, of Massachusetts. 

4 
Who. that died at Haddonfield, April 22. '!t7. aged 
81, once relieved Henry Clay of debt l:>y a popular sub- 
scription? Col. Peyton, the ''Father of Centennials", 
among them that of 1870 at Philadelphia. His last pel 
project was to be a Christian Reunion, in 1!*<M>. at Jere- 
salem. 

5 
When was Gen. McClellan appointed to succeed 
Gen. Winfield Scott? Nov. 1. 18(;i — but he was re- 
lieved, except as to the Potomac Army, in Jan. 1802. 


What were some of the gifts and becpiests of 1805? 
Aldrich. Sarah M.. of Newark. *5.000; Ralenstine. Mr. 
and Mrs.. J. H.. Newark, $50,000; Rrittin P.. of New- 
ton. $10,000; Huepfel. A. East Orange, .$5.(MiO: Stevens 
Estate, Hoboken, $20,000; Voorhees. P. L.. Camden. 
$28,500. 

7 
By whom were the tu<> stone monuments and tab- 
lets, marking where Gen. Washington crossed the Dela- 
ware Christmas night, 1770. before Trentt^n's battle, 
erected Oct. 15. '05. at Taylorville. Pa., and Washington 
Crossing. N. J.? One by the Huok's Co. (Pa.) Histor- 
ical Society, and the other by the X. J. Society of tlu 
Cincinnati. 

8 
Wiu-n had X. J. a flour-barrel orator named "Reel 
Citi/in". ..r "Kvi\ nian of Deep Cut"? In Ma\ ^*^00. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 217 

1 

Had the Saving's Bank deposits of 1895 ($39,99r),- 
752) been equally divided among the 1,672,942 inhabit- 
ants of N. J., what would have been the portion to each? 
$22.00. 

2 

When and where did "the father of professional 
base ball" (Henry Wright) die? At Atlantic City, Oct. 
3, 1895. 

3 

Why was a Jersey City man, who suicided in June 
1896, called the meanest man in the world? Because 
of his wanton destruction, by burning, of $3,000 in 
money, which his wife had saved up by pinching 
economy. 

4 

How much of the total vote, 311,609, at the guber- 
natorial election of 1895 did J. W. Griggs get? 162.900, 
the Populist vote being 1,901, Labor 4,147, and Prohibi- 
tion 6,661. 

5 

What difference between the population in 1895 
<1,672,942) and that of 1890 (1,444,933)? 228,009. 
6 

How was the $100,000 appropriated in 1895 for good 
roads, assessed? One-third on the State, one-tenth on 
property owners, and the balance on the counties. 
7 

What handbill, significant of State enterprise, was 
circulated in Ohio's capital, June 25, '96? That "the 
owners of New Jersey's coast fisheries" had side-tracked 
and on sale a car load of fish from the salt sea coast. 
8 

When were the first rails of the trolly line between 
New York and Philadelphia laid at Raritan? In Feb. 
1895, but steam was used till the dynamo came. 
9 

What was the nature of "the big battle" on Manas- 
c[uan River, June 22, 1896? It started in jests and pota- 
toes from a Pennsylvania steam launch towards two 
boys on a raft, who in revenge shot four of their 
assailants. 



218 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

What meant "from boatbuilder to millionaire" to 
a Phillipsburg man who died in 18!M). aged (v2? It had 
been his ambition to be so rich (poor) at that date. 
2 

When was a prominent Jerseyan "farmer" — G. 
A. Hobart — nominated for the Vice-Presidency, at 
St. Louis? June 18. 1896 — the anniversary of the 
Battle of Waterloo. 

What other New Jerseyans have figured as Repub- 
lican candidates? Theo. Frelinghuysen, in 1844, on the 
Protection platform with Henry Clay, and Wm. L. 
Dayton, in 18.")G. on the Freedom platform with J. C. 
Fremont. 

What did a reckless Ohio paper say. in June 189o, 
of the running mate of a Presidential candidate? He 
is a thoroughbred Jersey of blooded stock. 
4 

Who was the "Eastern Highwayman" of 00 or 70 
years ago? Joseph Hare, who terrorized Pennsylvania, 
Delaware and N. J., and had headcpiarters in the woods 
of Darby, in 1831. 

WMiat noted Western Statesman, who died in Chi- 
cago (June 25. 1801)) once taught school in Salem. Chat- 
ham and other N. J. towns? Lyman Trumbull. U. S. 
Senator for 18 years, who voted again>t the impeach- 
ment of Andrew J(^hnson. 

() 

What design was suggested, in June 18:)(], for a 
Hobart button? Twin moscjuitos on a sandburr. with 
the war legend: "New Jersey goes in for blood." 

When was Lincoln's birthday (Feb. 12) made a 
legal liolidav bv the governor's signature? April 18, 
18!)5. 

8 

Which three N. J. newspapers are over b>0 years 
old? The N. J. Journal, of Elizabeth. ITT!*: the N. J. 
State Gazette. Trenton. 17!»2. and The Guardian. New 
Brunswick, of 17!».3. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 219' 

1 

When was the electric line between Burlington and 
Mt. Holly completed? July 1895. 
2 

When was there a "Coon Orcliard", or farm of "iO 
acres, near Burrville, whose fur product netted SoOO? 
In 1896. 

3 

What monument on the College Campus at Prince- 
ton, reveals the dark side of Aaron Burr's character? 
That of "Catherine Moncrief, died June loth, 1793", 
betrayed by the traitor, under promise of marriage. 
She wished, by raising the monument, to raise the 
standard of morals among men, especially Princeton 
students. 

4 

What novel lightning method of stealing chickens 
was adopted in N. J. in 1896? Angling for them with 
fish hooks baited with corn. 
5 

How severe were the game law fines near Sonier- 
ville in Nov. 1896? For killing a rabbit, $25; for kill- 
ing two robins, |42, and imprisonment for non-pay- 
ment. 

6 

What comment made the press in Nov. 1896, orr 
the hazing of Freshmen by seven Princeton Sopho- 
mores? The jumping on their bound, prostrate com- 
rades was "an intellectual exercise worthy of an imbe- 
cile asylum." 

7 

How old was Princeton College when the Revolu- 
tion broke out? Thirty years. 

When did Princeton College become Princeton 
University? At its 150th anniversary, in Oct. 1896, 
when gifts aggregating $1,400,000 were presented to it, 
and President Cleveland conferred the degrees in pres- 
ence of guests from 150 colleges and universities. 

Under whose presidency did Princeton assume a 
Whig tinge? Witherspoon — and 50 years later the 
trustees had to taboo politics. From 1812 to 1868 The- 
ology rather than politics ruled the institution. 



220 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

What astonished the ecclesiastical world about -10 
years ago? The ordaining of Mrs. Brown, at Orange. 
N. J., to preach the gospel. One Sunday, in Nov. 1<S!)G. 
80 St. Louis pulpits had woman preachers in them. 
2 

When was a 48 year old lawsuit in progress at Tren- 
ton? In Nov. 1S96 — over a Sussex Co. Zinc mine. 
3 

What instance of religious infatuation occurred in 
a farm house near Vineland? Some Italians calling on 
their own son, as the coming ^Messiah. 
4 

What serio-comic clause appears in the charter of 
Spottswood church, whose 123rd anniversary occurred 
Nov. 23, 1896? That one peppercorn be annually de- 
manded and paid to King George through his Receiver 
General at Perth Amboy. Original charter — bleached 
by time — in St. Peter's church, at that date. 
6 

Where does the $3,500 40 feet high gray granite 
monument of N. J. stand on the battle field of Chicka- 
mauga? On Orchard Knob, near Grant's headquarters 
— and State Senator E. C. Stokes responded for the 
State, Nov. 23, 1896. 

6 

What was said by the press, in Nov. 1896, when the 
occupants of the White House bought the Slidell resi- 
dence at Princeton? Entered oflice worth ,$3,000 — 
leaves it, worth $5,000,000. 
7 

What happened in 1896 to a Flemington man whose 
arm was amputated as a result of a railroad collision? 
The frequent pains he attributed to the buried portion, 
which had to be exhumed three times and put in a com- 
fortable position, before he could be at ease. 
H 

How long was J. R. McPherson in the U. S. 
Senate? Same time as Clay and Crittenden, of Ken- 
tucky. Wade and Rugglos. of Ohio, Rufus King, of 
New York, and Trumbull, of Illinois — 18 years. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 221 

1 

Where and when did "the oldest daughter of the 
Revolution", Mrs. Wilson, a cousin of Chancellor Liv- 
ingston, die? At Alount Clair, Dec, 3, '96, aged 65. 
2 

When, for the first time in the world, was a tele- 
phone and telegraph message sent through a wire sus- 
pended by kites 500 feet in midair? Dec. 5, 1896, at 
Bayonne, at 9:30 at night — the location of wires and 
kites being noted by lanterns. 
3 

Why was the "Washington Headquarters Associa- 
tion" organized Dec. 11, 1896, at Trenton? To hold 
and preserve the property occupied by Washington dur- 
ing the Revolution. 

4 

What left Newark in darkness Dec. 29, 1896? A 
fire, which consumed 37 dynamos, worth $2,500 to 
$7,000 each, at a loss of $175,000. At same time "the 
West" from Pittsburg to Kansas City was enveloped in 
such a dense fog as to hinder the telegraph service more 
than a storm of electricity. 
5 

What was said, in Jan. 1897, of the jolly N. J. baker, 
by the U. S. Agricultural Department? His profits 
for labor and distribution are 116 per cent. — a barrel 
of flour costing $4.96 and selling in loaves for $10.74. 
6 

What was discovered in a healthy cow, killed in 
Jan. 1897, near Flemington? A small hardware store 
of nails, tacks, etc. 

7 

What revelation was made by a cave-in caused by 
rain, at Plainfield, in Aug. 1897? An old, abandoned 
copper mine, worked by English capital in 1770. 
8 

What did carping Western papers, speaking of 
Jersey lightning, attribute in July 1897. to a Jersey 
mosquito? He cut the neck of an old soldier, causing 
the loss of nearly a pint of blood — and broke up a 
camp meeting. "Baby stung to death in hammock",. 
another item. 



'I'l'l HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NKW .IKRSEV. 

1 

Of what value was the quondam 7<iu acre swamp 
near Madison, in Jan. \^\)~ t About $l.r)(M»,(KK» — with 
electric lighted stable, holding 2<m» horses, on it — yet 
its owner. McTwombly. was not made happy by it. 
■) 

What was said of the Bible at the Jewish Chautau- 
qua. Atlantic City. July 18!»7? Hebrew, its genius and 
best interpreter — its preservation due to the survival 
of the fittest — the Jews. 

3 
Where was a man fined $J for two acts of profanity 
in Aug. 18HT? At Bridgeton — "according to law." 
4 
When (lid the oldest of the six survivors of the war 
of I."^l-1 reach, at Newark, his lolsl birthdav? Aug. 7. 
18!)7. 

5 
When did the Legislature comply with the recjuest 
made Feb. 28. 1780, by the Continental Congress, that 
N. J. and other states have State llags? In 18!I7. when 
one of buff color, with the State Coat of .\rms, was 
adopted and made the governor's head(|uarters llag t)n 
State occasions. 

1) 
Who became the .!4th \'ice- President of the U. S.? 
Garrett Augustus Hobart, of Paterson, who was born 
•at Long Branch, where his father taught school, June 
a 1841. 

< 
When was Hobart ready for college? .\t 14. and 
took prize for mathematics at Rutger's. which ex- 
plains his shrewd figuring for the Presidency. 
,s 
What shows Hobart's great self-denial? His re- 
fusal to run for Congress in 1880. '88. '!><» and '!>i. and the 
governorship in 18!l2 and 181>r» — ]ireferring to elect 
Griggs. 

9 
When did Gen. Winfield Scott attend i-onmuiu ».•- 
mcnt at Princeton? In 1814 — on his return from the 
battle of Lundy's Lane, where he was wounded. 



THINGS np:\v and oi.d. 223 

1 

On what occasion was a woman — Mrs. Potter — 
admitted to the sacred precincts of Whig Hall? When, 
pursued by a mad bull to the door, she was forced to 
take refuge within — among the society members. 

When and why did a patron of New York 
(Stephanus Van Rensalaer, then aged 15) leave Prince- 
ton for Cambridge, where he graduated in 178"2? In 
1779, because of the too close proximity of British 
troops, necessitating a military guard for the Prince 
ton boys. 

3 

What of the woman who died in Jersey City. July 
1897, — 101 years after her birth in Prussia? She saw 
Napoleon march through Prussia, and waved a red 
handkerchief to the Emperor. 
4 

What adorned the casket at the funeral, Feb. 24, 
1896, of Runyon. late Embassador to Germany, held 
at Newark? A laurel wreath, given by the city of Ho- 
boken — while crescents of American and German flags 
hung here and there. 

5 

When was the Secretary of the U. S. Treasury 
(Carlisle) a witness at Trenton in a counterfeiting case? 
In Feb. 1896, when Brockway, et. al.. were convicted 
As Secretary he testified that he was sole custodian of 
the peculiar paper, used in making U. S. Treasury notes. 

^ . „ . 
When did Newark lose "Sid", its famous auctioneer 

and wit — who as member of the 33rd regiment had 

fought in 27 battles? In Feb. 189(). 

7 

When did Mrs. Parnell have her 80th year picture 
taken? In Feb. 1896 — when she declared. "I am hard 
to kill." Born in Philadelphia in 181<l — married in 
1835, and mother of ten children. 
8 

What was the signature of Samuel Ncvil. who 
edited the "New American ^Magazine", published at 
Woodbridge, Jan. 1758? Sylvanus Americanus. 



2*24 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

What instance of "patriotic" tit for tat occurred at 
Princeton. March 5. 1890? The burning in effigy of 
the infant king of Spain, and the tearing up of a street- 
bedraggled Spanish flag — by the undergraduates, in 
retaliation for the insult to the U. S. flag by the students 
of Barcelona, Spain. 

2 

What sentence did "the King of Coniakers". Brock- 
way, get at Trenton. March 7, 1890? Ten years in "the 
Pen.", and a fine of $1,000. His landlady, like Mrs. 
Surratt. was also punished. 
3 

Who captured the channel Islands — chief of which 
is Jersey — off the French Coast? Rollo, who made 
them part of the Duchy of Normandy — and thus, 
through William, of Normandy, the contjueror. they 
became attached to England. 
4 

What was the result of every war between France 
and England? An attack on Jersey by French troops, 
whose most signal defeat was by the English garrison 
and Jersey militia. Jan. 6. 1781. 
5 

How many inhabitants in 1801 — when the popula- 
tion of Jersey was 54.518 — to the 28.717 acres consti- 
tuting the island area? About two, the land being 
held in parcels of 5 to 20 English acres. 
B 

Where are the Historical Societies of N. J. lo- 
cated? N. J. Historical Society. Newark; New Bruns- 
wick Club, New England Society. Orange, Passaic Co., 
Paterson, Salem, Co.. Salem. Hunterdon Co.. I'^lem- 
ington; Vineland. of Vineland. Somerset Co.; Somer- 
ville and Lyceum of History. Burlington. 
7 

Which session of the Continental Congress — last- 
ing 54 days — was held at Trenton? The tenth, from 
Nov. 1. 1784 to Dec. 24. 1784. and the eighth — lasting 
127 days — from June •'{<» to Nov. 4. \~f<'\, was held at 
Princeton. 



THINGS NEW AND OT.D. 225 

1 

Which is called "the first public school fund in 
America"? The Revenue of Mateniyunk island, in the 
Delaware, opposite Burlington, set apart for education. 

2 

How were the evils of gambling portrayed, Sept. 
19, 1897, in a Bridgeton church? By stereopticon — 
and the fight called "New Jersey's Great Battle.'' 
3 

What service did John Stevens, the engineer and 
inventor, render? Secured the U. S. patent laws of 
1790, navigated the Hudson in 1804, with his screw- 
propellor, built a steam ferry in 1811, between Hoboken 
and New York, and in 182G, at the age of 78, built a 
locomotive, carrying passengers 12 miles an hour, at 
Hoboken. 

4 

When had Columbus, O., papers pictures of Miss 
Egel, President, and Mrs. Hazard, member of the Lin- 
coln, N. J., Council? Sept. 16, 1897. 
5 

When was a Railway prof'^-ssor jubilant over his 
discovery that a chemical spread over the marshes of 
N. J. would destroy the mosquito germ? Sept. 1897. 
6 

Which of the eight Congressional Districts has the 
least population? The eighth, with 125,793, and the 
seventh, with 222,053, the most. 
7 

What prevented an escaped prisoner from going 
beyond the roof of the State prison, Sept. 21, '97? The 
rays of the new electric Search Light in use there. 
8 

Wliat Chancellors has N. J. had within 50 years? 
O. S. Halsted, 1845; Benjamin Williamson, 1852; 
Henry W. Green, 1860; A. O. Zabriskie, 1866; Theo. 
Runyon, 1873; Alex. T. McGill, 1887-1901. 
9 

Who presided over the 121st Legislature? Senate: 
Robert Wilhams, of Passaic. Assembly: G. W. ^Ic- 
Pherson, of Mercer. 



2"Jt'. HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

How long a nap did an intoxicated man take in 
a Camden jail before he died, Sept. 8, '97? About 108 
consecutive hours. 

2 

When did the State printer of N. J. print •')."iit> 
copies of a family Bible? In 1778, at Trenton. 
3 

What returns did Grover Cleveland make to the 
Princeton assessors Sept. 8, '97? $15<>,0(MI as his wealth. 
4 

What happened to the man — G. A. R. Com- 
mander Sands — who had passed safely through both 
Bull Run Battles? He was killed, in times of peace, 35 
years after, by jumping, Sept. 17, '1»7. from a moving 
electric in Jersey City. 

5 

Which of the U. S. Senators from X. J. resigne 1?" 
William Paterson, 1790, to be elected governor of N. J.; 
John Rutherford (1708); Frederick Frelinghuyseii 
(1700); James Schuereman (1801); Aaron Kitchell 
(1800); James J. Wilson (1821); Ephraim Bateman 
(1820); S. L. Southard (1842); and Robert F. Stockton 
(18o3). 

6 

Which of the U. S. Senators from N. J. died in 
office? Joseph Mcllvaine. in 1820; John R. Thomson, 
18(32. and William Wright, m ISOO. 
7 

Which one of the U. S. Senators from N. J. was 
unseated? Jf)hn P. Stockton. March 20. 1800 — see 
Blaine's "Twenty Years." 

8 

When will the franchise of a Long Branch Electric 
— granted Sept. 2<>. '07, expire? Witliin four years of 
the vear 2(iOO. 



What of John I'itch, who sleeps. Sept. 1807. in an 
unmarked grave, at Bardstown. Ky.? In 1784 he filed 
a drawing of his steamboat, which in 178.1 was launched 
on the Delaware, and carried several i)a.>^senger.s be- 
tween Bordentown and Philadelphia. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 227 

1 

When were "the roads and fields for a mile around 
Lincoln dedicated to the memory of Abe Lincoln"? 
Memorial Day, 1897, by "the silver tongued orator of 
Middlesex and Union counties." 
2 

What remark did one standing by make when 
Fitch predicted that steamboats would yet ascend the 
Mississippi, and yet be preferred for crossing the At- 
lantic? "Poor fellow! What a pity he is crazy!" 
3 

When did Richard Stockton win a case for John 
Fitch against Robert Fulton? In 1813-14, by producing 
Fitch's original drawing. 

4 

What bargain did Fitch, the inventor of the steam- 
boat which ran in 1785 fiom Philadelphia to Borden- 
town, make during his last days? Convey 700 acres 
of land to a Bardstown, Ky., tavern keeper, on condi- 
tion that he keep him in food and raiment the rest of 
his life, and give him one pint of whiskey a day. An- 
other pint was added by a deed of 300 acres more. 
5 

What of the U. S. Army wagon, drawn by four 
horses, which arrived at Orange Sept. 30. '97? It left 
Fort Niobrara, Dak., June 30 — passing through Iowa. 
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and N. J., a 
distance of 2,000 miles, in 90 days — getting lost in 
an Indian Reservation, and going 400 miles out of the 
way, caused the loss of wager to make it in 72 days. 
6 

What was called a "Romantic Reunion"? The 
dining together, at Columbus, O., Sept. 30, '97, of Land- 
lord Bassett and Mayor Drake, of Lincoln. N. J. — 
confederate and rebel — who 30 years before had 
wounded each other in battle. 
7 

Why were the faces of Princeton Freshmen 
wreathed in smiles Oct. G, 1897? Because of the Presi- 
dential proclamation that no longer might Seniors com- 
pel them — like baby carriages — to take the street or 
bathe unwillingly in the chilly Raritan. 



228 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

How far did the ire of a Freehold ordinance maker 
extend Oct. 1897.'' CompeUing baby carriages to take 
to the street, instead of sidewalk. 
2 

When did a Kansas doctor and wife, formerly of 
Bridgeton, start for Leeds, England, to convert it to 
Christian Science? October 18!J7. 
3 

When did the son of a rich Hamburg manufacturer 
beg for food and shelter at Hoboken police station? 
Oct. 0, 1897. 

4 

Where was Ex Gov. W. A. Newell, in Aug. 189G? 
At Olympia, Wash., a self-announced candidate for 
governor of Washington — to which, in 1880, Hayes 
appointed him governor. AlcClellan beat Newell for 
governor of N. J. in 1877. He was in Congress, Feb. 
23, 1848, when J. Q. Adams was stricken down with 
fatal illness. 

5 

When did New York and Ohio papers say that 
Grover Cleveland had his eye on the U. S. Senator- 
ship from N. J.? Oct. 1897. 
() 

What assurance did water users in Camden receive, 
Oct. 1897? That thereafter water and eels would be 
served to the public separately. 
7 

How was the popular vote Sept. 28, 1897, on the 
three Constitutional Amendments? Anti-gambling, 
majority 602; Ad interim 7,804, and defeat of woman 
suffrage amendment. Vote one-third that of the last 
Presidential election. 

8 

What occurred near Alannington. Salem Co., 
about 6000 B. C? The mysterious disappearance, in 
the soft mud of that locality, of a heavy-weight masto- 
don, about twice the size of Jum1)o. His remains were 
unearthed in Aug. 1870, and skeleton mounted at 
Rochester, N. Y. in 1896, as the property of Rutgor's 
College. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 229 

1 

When was a liquor license refused for "Wheelman's 
Rest", at Pumpstown, near ]\Ietuchen? Sept. 28, '97. 
2 
To what straits was a New Brunswick church put, 
June 25, 1896, to raise money? The feet of 20 girls be- 
longing to the "Upper ten" were exhibited through a 
raised curtain on the stage, and bid oi¥ by the other sex. 
3 
When was the largest sailing vessel afloat — the 
American Oil ship, May Flint — sighted 40 miles off 
the Highlands — dismasted, etc., Sept. 8, by a West 
India luu-ricane? Oct. 7, 1897. 
4 
What important order came to Bridgeton in 
Aug. 1896? For mint, or coin-making machinery, to 
the value of $13,000, for the Chinese government. The 
same month "Earl Li", the richest and most powerful 
citizen of China, was visiting the Western World, in- 
cluding the U. S. 

5 
Who was said, Oct. 1897, to be "praising up" the 
State of his birth? G. Cleveland, occupant of a stone 
house at Princeton — and the much-talked-of Senator 
or Judge of the future. 

6 
Where and when did a grandnephew of Commo- 
dore Perry die? At Ocean Grove, Oct. 12, '97 — a 
sea-faring man, aged 85. 

7 
What was said, Oct. 1897, of an ex-saloonist, of 
Newark, who had turned archaeologist? "Hunts hu- 
man bones" — his happiest hours being spent in digging 
for and selling the bones and relics of extinct races — 
such as the Lenni Lenapes — whose ancient habitat 
was chiefly along the Delaware River. 
8 
When in 1897 were deer plentiful near May's Land- 
ing? Oct. 12, '97. 

9 
When did a native of Ceylon, India — a mini_ster, 
aged 79 — die at his home in Newark? Oct. 3. '97. 



230 HISTORICAI, HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY. 

1 

What calamity made Bridgeton mourn in Aug. 
1890? The death of many of its citizens from colHsion 
of Atlantic City Express with a freight, at a crossing. 

2 
When was the hall donated by the pioneer of Vine- 
land, to the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian So- 
ciety, dedicated? Oct. 12, '97. 
3 
How was the affidavit of a man in Philadelphia — ■ 
immediately taken before the judge in a case at Vineland 
Oct. 13, '97? By telephone, as had been done a few 
weeks before in a New York Court — the witness in 
Cincinnati, O., being sworn to an affidavit by telephone. 
4 
What unusual crime was agitating Camden, Oct. 
16, '97? The murder by one Shaw of his mother and 
grandmother. 

5 
In whose hands were placed the interests of a 
New Brunswick High School girl — who, with her sister, 
of Jersey City — became known heirs, Oct. 17, 1897, to 
the 125,000,000 estate of an Australian gold miner? 
Gov. Griggs and Vice-President Hobart. 
6 
When did a mesmerized Jerseyman give away his 
farm at a Simpson meeting in New York, for "foreign" 
missions? Oct. 17, '97. 

7 
When was Chancellor McGill asked, at Jersey City, 
to appoint a receiver for the American Grocery Co., 
doing business all over the country? Oct. 19. 1897. 
8 
Where was Geo. M. Pullman (inventor and builder, 
in 1865, of the first Pullman car, "the Pioneer", cost 
$18,000) living ten days before his death in bed at Chi- 
cago, Oct. 19, 1897? At Elbcron, his summer residence. 
9 
Who signed the first charter of the College of N. J., 
now Prineton University? John Hamilton, Colonial 
Governor of N. J. on Oct. 22. 1746. 



THINGS NEW AND OLD. 231 

1 

What is the compiler's highest purpose in the pub- 
lication of this book? The diffusion of useful knowl- 
edge in compendious form among the people of New 
Jersey, coupled with the thought that the laborer (the 
compiler) is worthy of his hire, i. e. a reasonable 
reward. 

2 
Who made addresses on "Commemoration Day", 
Oct. 22, 1897 — the 151st anniversary of the day when 
Princeton's first charter was signed? Ex President 
Cleveland and the Earl of Aberdeen, Governor General 
of Canada, on whom Princeton confers the degree of 
LL. D. 

3 
What drove a Priuceton professor to the verge Oct. 
27, '97 — of leaving his denomination? The press and 
clerical criticisms on his signing with G. Clevelaud, the 
petition to license the Princeton Inn. 

4 
When was the tide at Cape May the highest since 
1844? Oct. 25, '97 — when that coast was swept by a 
storm marking 45 miles an hour. 

5 

When did Queen Victoria congratulate Ex-President 
Cleveland on the birth of a boy and the Alumni of 
Princeton assign Grover Jr. to the ball game of 1916? 
Oct. 30, 1897. 

6 

Swedesboro has a voter 92 years old, who Nov. 3, '97 
had voted 70 consecutive years. 

7 

Trenton, Nov. 1, '97 — The State Board of Assessors 
value the Railroad propertv of the State at $220,869,373 
and on that basis tax the Railroads for 1898 $1,506,924,90 
for State and local purposes covering the following 
companies: Pennsylvania Railroad $413,346, New Jersey 
Central $308,310, Delaware Lackawanna & Western $276,- 
537, Erie R. R. $151,969, Lehigh Vallev $133,459. Philada. 
& Reading $49,604, N. Y. S. & W. $46,037. All others 
$125,660. 



INDEX OF PERSONS 



Explanation —When parii>^raphs are iiitlextrd the page 
and paragraph are combined thus: Adams John, 
1".»_'.7 — meaning page l\>2, paragrajih 7. 



Al.l)elt Leon. 7-8-21-22-G1-63- 

f,4. 
Ahenleen Earl of. 1!:U.-J. 
Adams John, l!»li.7. 
Adams J. Q.. ir>-14T.2--J'JS.4. 
Adolphus (lustavus. IT). 
Allen Horatio, «>:'.. 
Anilerson John, <;-.'*.7. 
An.lre Major. U-l'.tC.J. 
Andros Kdmund. fi-lls.T. 
Anne Queen, .''.•J-:'.;i-:',4-lS(;.:i 
Apgar K. A.. "»('». 
Arnold Benedict. 10(1.2. 
Hadeau Adam, U7-144. 
Barber A. S.. (u. 
Barclay Robert <;-i:{s.4. 
Basse Jeremiah, (5. 
Bateman E., 24-4K-22r,.5. 
Beasley Mercer, «»4-(;8-Gy- 

121.4-Jnr)-;). 
Bedle Joseph. 7-8-10-58-50, 
Bedle Thomas J.. 20. 
Belcher Jonathan. 0-.S7-.'{S- 

Os.7-lnl. •1-120-. ..S.i;. 
Berkeley Lord. 27-ir.l.:MC.7-(). 
Bernard Francis, r.-:{.s-2 11.4. 
Birney J. G., Ii.x4. 
Blair John I., 2ia.r». 
lilo.lgett Knfus, 24-(;2. 
Bloom held Joseph. 7-S-10-45- 

I.-.4. 
Bonaparte Josejih, 40-i:!."i-140- 

n;7.r». 

Boone Andrew, (>. 
Boone Thomas. (»-.'i8. 
Bou.linot Elias. 42-158.0- 
i(;i.4-n<»-is:!..'{-is:{..--i'.t:!.(;. 

Bradlord Samuel. 1»;4.7. 
Bra.lford William. 21it.s. 
Bradlrv Joseph. 11.".!. 
lirr.irby David, lls.j. 
Brv(b-n S.-th. 4S. 
Burn. -It William, f,-:;:;. 
Burr Aaron. li:».4-12r,.2-175.S- 

lo:;. 2-210.:'.. 



Burr Rev. Aaron. .''.<-:{S-100.4- 

105.4. 
By Hinge (Byllings) (5-28-31. 
Cadwallader L., IKi.'A. 
Campbell Lord ^eil. (>. 
Carlisle John G.. 22:{.5. 
Carre Robert. 27. 
Carteret Piiilij). (;-27-140. 
Carteret Sir George. 74.1- 

i:?4.:{-i.".o.;{-i(;i.;{. 

Cattell A. G.. 24-5(5. 

Cesnola Gen. L. - .. 188. 

Chambers John, 01.7. 

(Miard Hannah. 2(»5. 2-211. 10. 

Charles I. 2(5. 

Charles II. 27-;?n. 

(Miatt'aubran<l F. A.. 102.2. 

Christina Queen. 2(5. 

Clarke Abraham. 4:M;{0-2. 

Clay Henry. 21S.2-220..S. 

Cleveland. 5-S.S.2-210.7-22G.3- 
22S. 5-220. 5-2:{ 1.2. 

Clinton DeWitt. 141.:{-10:{.2. 

Clinton George. 4(5. 

Clinton Sir H.. 4(>-l!K5.2. 
! Coe. Geo. S.. 203.8. 
I Collins Isaac. 30-152-1(55.5. 
I Cook Geo. H., 174.7. 
j Cooper J. Fennimori', 118.6. 
: Cooper John. 30. 

Cooper and Hewitt (N. Y.), 

Coriibury Lord C. .32-.33-74.S. 
Cornwallis Lor.l. 4it-iol.7- 

17L3. 
Cosbv William. i\--M\. 
(\)xe Daniel. (5-;{l-:{5-30. 
Davenport l-'raiiKlin, 24. 
Davis Mrs. Jeff.. Kt. 
Davton Jonathan. 24-43-44- 

45-4(5-1 10.4- i(;o. 
D.iVton Wm. L.. 24-.VJ-1S.3..5- 

2ls.-_». 
I >.'eker Peter, 0.'.. 
|...\-ri..^ B.'ter. 2(5. 



INDEX OF PERSONS. 



233 



DeVroom Peter D.. 49. 
Dickerson Mamon. 7-8-12-124- 

47_48-41>-92.8-l.M.:!. 
Dickerson Philemon, 7-S-12- 

14-'J4-4'.»-lS.S.;5. 
Dickin.son Anna E.. 1!);!.8. 
Dickin.son Jonathan. 19.J.2. 
Dix Miss. .")1. 
Dudley Col. Jo.seph, (i. 
Edison Thomas a.., UO-174.4- 

201-212.(j. 
Edwards Jonathan, 91.8-17.j- 

8-100. .j-194. 
Ewards Wm., 170.2. 
Elizabeth Queen. 25. 
Elmer Daniel. _L-i-24-4.'^. 
Elmer Jeremian, 18.'i.;i. 
Fenwick John, 28. 
Field Richard S., 24. 
Field Stephen D., 174.4. 
Fitch John, 4w-43-lG8-228.9- 

227.2-21' (.4. 
Fort Geo. F., 7-8-ir)-.j2. 
Fox George, 107.4. 
Franklin Benj.. 39-10G.7-120..3- 

1()4.2. 
Franklin Wilham, 6-9-38- 

118.3-1;U.2. 
Freling-huysen F.. 24-226.5. 
Frelinghuysen F. T.. 24-56-61- 

62-209.4. 
Frelinghuysen Theodore, 24- 

48-218.2. 
Fremont John C, 168-218.2. 
Freneau Philip, 108.5. 
Fuller A. P., 204. 
Gardiner Thos., .32-.3.5. 
Gardner C. K., 115.3. 
Garfield Pres., x77.8. 
Gates Sir Thos., 25. 
George I. 35. 
George III, 96.7. 
Goadsby and cox. 120.3. 
Goodrich S. G. (Peter Parley) 

187.3. 
Gordon Thos., 33-.36. 
Granger Gideon. 200.4. 
Grant and Wilson, .58. 
Gray Christopher. 146-5. 
Gray Geo. R., 64. 
Green Gen. Geo. S., 179.3. 
Green Robert S., 7-8-27-62. 
Griggs John Wm., 7-8-23-68- 

126.7-201. 6--ij.». 3-216.5-2.30.5. 
Haine.s Daniel, 7-8-1.5-16-51. 
Hamilton Andrew, 6-31-74.8. 



Hamilton John, 6-37-89.2-135. 

7-15S-230.9. 
Hamilton Alexander, 166.2- 

172.2-182.5-196.4. 
Hancock Gen. W. S.. 61. 
Hancock John, 141.2. 
Hardy Josiah. -.38. 
Hare Joseph, 218.4. 
Hare John, 3*j-139.2. 
Harrison C. M.. 55. 
Harrison Wm. Henry, 51-169. 
Hennepin, 88.3. 
Henry VIII. 25. 
Hobart G. A., 68-69-215.9- 

218. 2-222. 7-230. 5. 
Hornblower Joseph, 137.3. 
Howell Richard. 7-8-10-44. 
Hopkinson Francis, 124.5- 

1M9.2. 
Hudson Sir Henry, 25-98.2. 
Hunicke Ed., 6. 
Hunter R. M. T., 15. 
Hunter Robert, 6-34-35-3G. 
Hurley Baron. 34. 
Hyde E. (see Cornbury). 
Ingersoll R., 4. 
Ingoldsby Richard, 6-.33-.34. 
Jackson Pres., 12-.50-143.5. 
Jackson Stonewall, 20. 
Jay John, 9. 

Jennings Samuel, 6-29-33. 
Jefferson Pres., 192.7. 
Johnson Dr. John, 36. 
Kay John, 34. 

Kearney Phil, l,j;).6-167-196.6. 
Keift William. 6-26-31. 
Keith George. 131.3. 
Kelsey H. C. 63-64. 
King T. F., 51. 
Kitchen Aaron. 24-45-226.5. 
Kitchen Wm., 54. 
Knox Gen.. 11. 
Kollock Shepherd, 41. 
Lafayette Gen., 11-48-179.5. 
Lafayette G. W., 135. 
Lambert John, 7-24-45-46. 
Lawrie Gawan. 6. 
Lincoln Abe, 17-116.4-213.4- 

218.7-227. 
Linn Wm., 115.6. 
Livingston Brockholst, 196. 
Livingston J. H., 115. 
Livingston ± ...iip. 9. 
Livingston Wm., 7-8-9-.39-40- 

42-43-44 - 97.10-195.6 - 196.2- 

199.6. 



234 HISTORICAI, HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY 



Lovelace Lord, 6-28-34. 
Ludlow Geo. C, 7-8-21-Gl- 

11.-...-). 
Madison Pres., Il-i0-l(t0.2. 
Marshall Justice, lit. 
Marshall James ^^^, 115.3- 

1J.-..G. 
McClellan Geo. B.. 7-8-13-20- 

r..-»-(;0-02 - l4<'.8-203.5 - 216.5- 

228.4. 
McCosh Pres.. 148.4. 
McGill A. T., 23-64-209.3-225.8- 

230.7. 
Mcllvaine Joseph. 24-226.9. 
McKinley. 5-215.9. 
McPherson John R., 24-61-63- 

71-220..S. 
Mey Capt. C. J.. 161.2. 
Miller Isaac W.. 24. 
Miller J. W., 52-53. 
Minuit Peter, 6. 
Monroe James Pres.. 47-152.3. 
Montgomery John 6-36. 
Morris Lewis. 6-30-38-37-94.9- 

103.6-132.2-l;>o.6. 
Morris Robert, 11-103. 
Morse S. F. B. a837), 121.2. 
Nevil Samuel, 223.8. 
Newell AVm. A., 7-8-17-53- 

115.5-170.7-228.4. 
Nicolls Gov.. 27-132-162.2. 
Ogden Aaron, 7-8-11-24-45- 

46-143-19(5.4. 
Ogden Josiah. 191.3. 
Ogden I'zal. 19x.2. 
Olden Chas. Smith, 17-54. 
Olive Thomas, (5-31. 
Pain'- Thomas. 104.4. 
Pap:'g'oia. 26. 
Parker James, 38-90.5-98.2- 

165.2. 
Parker Joel, 7-8-18-19-54-57- 

5S-195.7. 
Parnell Delia. 67. 
Patch Sam.. 146.2. 
Patterson AVm.. 7-8-9-24-43- 

44-HH».2-115.4-lS3.3. 
Peale C. W.. 12.5.2. 
Pemberton Phiiieas. 29. 
Pendleton Geo. H., 55. 
I'. '1111 \Vm., 2S-29-11S-170.8. 
Pennington A\'m.. 7-S-15-.-)0. 
IN-nniiiKton W'ni. S.. 7-S-ll- 

4<;-l!t5.5. 
Perthnick Pastor. :U. 
Peyton J. K., 69-216.4. 



Phelps Wm. W.. 187.4-208.6. 
Phillips J. H., 53. 
Pike Zebulon. 1.54.6. 
Pitcher Molly, 121. 
Poland A. R.. 64-67. 
Price R. M.. 7-8-16-.53-105.7. 
Printz John. 6-26. 
Pullman Geo. M.. 230.8. 
Putnam Gen I.. 40. 
Raleigh Sir Walter, 25. 
Randolph ICdward, 10. 
Randolph John, 120.6. 
Randolph T. F., 7-8-19-24- 

193.3. 
Rawle John. 51-166.5. 
Read Thomas, 1.30.9. 
Reading Jonn, 6-37-38. 
Ricord F. W., .j4. 
Rittenhouse David. 96.7. 
Robeson Geo. M., 56-69-70- 

18.3.5-216.3. 
Roebling John. 52. 
Rudyard Thomas, 6. 
Runyon Theo.. 124.2-124.4- 

159.5-223.4-225.8. 
Rutgers Henry, ll.t.s. 
Rutherford John 24-226.5. 
Sargeant J. D., .39-40. 
Schtireman James. 24-226.5. 
Schuyler Arent. 35-199.3. 
Schuyler Col. John. 199.5. 
Schuyler Peter, 199..3. 
Scott Gen. Winfield, 168.6- 

216.5-222.9. 
Seeley E. P., 7-8-14-49-115.5. 
Sewell Wm. J.. 24-60-31. 
Sickels V. B., 184.3. 
Skeine John. 6. 
Smitli James Jr.. 24. 
Smith Richard. 124.5. 
Southard S. L., 7-8-13-24-47- 

48-49-1.39.2 - 145-148,^-183.5- 

226.5. 
Stafford Mrs.. 137.2. 
Stevens E. and S., 94.2. 
Stevens John. 47-89.4-102.5- 

22.5 3 
Stlickton John P., 24-64-18.3.5. 
Stockton Richard. 24-139.2- 

167-227.3. 
Stockton Robert F., 24-53- 

H;.s.(;-226.5. 
Stratton Chas. C 7-S-15-51- 

52-lJt5.7. 
Stuvvesant Peter. 6-26. 
Sullivan Gen., 40. 



INDEX OF PERSONS. 



235 



Swaine Elizabeth, 189.7. 
Symmes Capt., 144.6-151.3- 

169. 
Tallyrand, 192.2. 
Tatham John, 6. 
Teachman Nicholas, 150. 
Ten Eyck John C, 24-54. 
Tennant Rev. Wm., 125.4- 

135.3. 
Thompson John R., 24-54- 

226.6. 
Tilden and Hendricks, 59. 
Tompkins D. D., 47. 
Treat Robert, 190.1. 
Trent. Col., 3ij. 
Trumbull Lyman. 218.5-219.8. 
Tyler John 51. 
Useling- Wm., 25. 
"Uncle Noah , 202.'6. 
Vail Alfred, 121.2. 
Vance A. A., 119.8. 
Van Buren i^res., 12-13. 
Van Twiller Wouter, 6. 
Verazzano Jean, 137.2. 



Vroom Peter D., 7-8-13-14. 
Wadd Sir Amigell. 25. 
Wall Garrett 1)., 24-146.3. 
Wall John W., 24. 
Ward Joel, 17. 
Ward Marcus L., 7-8-17-127. 
Washington George, 9-10-11- 
40-41-158.5-171..3-172.3-178.4- 
182.5-191.5-192.4-197.3-216.7. 
Washington Wm.. 152.3. 
Webster Daniel, 15. 
Werts Geo. T., 7-8-22-64-66- 

68-115.5. 
Whitefield Geo., 37. 
Whitman Walt, 64. 
William III, 177.2. 
Wilson J. J., 13-24-47. 
Williamson Isaac H., 7-8-12- 

47-144.2. 
Wirt Wm., 144.9. 
Witherspoon John, 139.2- 

186.2-194.4-197.4-219.7. 
Wright Wm., 24-54-226.6. 
Young Capt. Theo., 26. 



INDEX OF PLACES 



KxPLANATiON — When paragraphs are indexed the page 
and paragraph are combined thus: Caesars Isle, 
117.7 — meaning page 117, paragraph 7. 

Amboy. ;{0-ai-.M«)-4it-!»:{.4-04..'?- • Hanover. lli-170.;i. 

•»r,.«;-<»s.:'.-i(H-l(>M.r,-i i:;-ir,i.7- Hohoken. r.-2-J-u7.:M02.r.-i(r.- 
ir,«;.:{-i77.ii. ii«i.ii-ii'l.o-i;{S.:i - 145.3-2U7- 

BariK^'at. 4U-H\.:i. 2jr..::. 

Baskinridire. l.'{-4(5. . Hunterdon, 07.2. 

Bayonne. r>-G»-114.2-17(;-2(t7- Jersev City. u-ll-21-66-10S.ll- 

221.2. 111.:m:'.ii.7 - 17G-181.6- 193.:?- 

Bergen. r)-2r)-2('>-27 - 2S-l(»,-i.r.- ' 2M7-211.7. 

l(iS.r.-13S.:{-lf;2.2. Kill von Kull. G3-75.8. 

Bordentown. 2;i-:'.7-4J»-l»1.2-!>7.- Kittaiining. W. 

ln-li>4. 4-135 - ir)l-l(;7.2-2n7- fjak-vvoo*!. 12J».4. 

227.4. I.aniiierton. SI. 0-154.6-163. 

Boundbrook. 58-122.2. I.awrenceville. 17-50. 

P.ridgt-ton. 14-Sl.«.»-loi»-142-14:'.- I.eedsville. 108.7-131.6. 

17f,--_'(i7-221».4. I..incoln. 70. 

Burlington. 2". t-3o-:n -.".2-33-35- T.ong Branch. 122.7 - 136.4- 

;',7-4!>-5(»-(»1.2 - !»3.4-!I.S.3-118.- 151.4-177.7., 

«;-12u.2-13S.3-152-15(;.4-207. Mattawan. 10. 

Caesars Isle. 117.7. i Middletown. l(i:'..t;-i:i8.:M5().4- 

Camden. 5-30-51-!t3.(*>- 108.11- • 1C,l'.2. 

i:'.s.:{- 146-181.(5 - 1S4.3-1S5.3- Milltown. .'".l. 

207. Monmouth. 107.3 - 114.8-121- 

Cape May. 35-1..J.5-161.2. 1:52.2-171. 3.-170.5 

(^hatham. 41-OS.C,. Morristown. 11-10-23 - 45-59- 

Chester. ;i.»-138.3. 1VJ.5-1.S7.3-102.5-2O7. 

Cohinsey, 05.3-13S.3. , Morris Plains, 10. 

Darlington. 01.4. Mount Holly. U'A.'.l 

Deal Beach. 131.5. Navesink. .33-8,3.3 - 107.3-137- 

Derhertown. 05-1.3S.3. 151. 2-160.6-177. 6-l.«!0.4. 

Delaware, 4.3-76. .{-SI. ' New Castle, 20. 

Dov.-r. .36-44-177. Newark. 5-lO-ll-15-17-27-2t)- 

Elizab.'th. 5-0-11-12-15-22-27- 37-44-45 - 47-4S-4!>-.50-54-5(;. 

2S-:{7-:'.0-41 - 45-60-<.t5 - 07.2- 01.S-03-!»4 - 05-06-OO.r, - 10:{.2- 

0S.0-!I0.2-102.3 - 1O4-10S-114.- lo5 - 112-120.4 - 1:5.5.7-137.5- 

o-iit;.-j - i:{s.s - i4«;,s- 1.50.4- i:5s.:5-i40.o - i«>r,-ir,o.2 - 176- 

l.".2.2- 170.2 - 17(;-lS!i - 10!».(;- 177.5-1SU.5 - 1S(;.:?-1S0 - 100- 

2< 17-21 S.S. I'.tl - I'.fj- tJ>5-2(X •.2-2< >7. 

Fh-mington. 54. New Amsted. 27. 

rn-asburg. lOS-1.55-16t5.3. New Hrunswick. 5-.35-.36-30- 

Fn- hold. 20-31-.54 - 105-i:{6.6- ; 42-00.7 - 110.5-12S.4 - i:i.5.2- 

1.57-162.2. j 1.38.:{-147.:5 - ir.l.4-H;o.:M76- 

Olassboro. 46-10S.2-122.r,. lS.S.r,--Jii2.7-2o7-2ls.s. 

(Ihtuc.-st.'r, 25-:54-14o-207. New Canary. 74.2-H;o.O. 

Hackfttstown. 2:5. New Ncth.-rlands. r.-75.4. 

Had lonlh Id. lo. ' New Sweden. r,-74.4. 



INDEX OF PIPAGES. 



Nova Caesarea, 74.2-156.2. 

Orange, 5-20-207. 

Oxford, 37. 

Paterson, 5-14-23-44-48-51.-58- 

55-05-91. 6 - 9lJ.5-y8.s - 103.5- 

117.3-128.6 - 141.4-145.4-166.- 

4 - 169.7 - 176. - 181.6 - 184.4- 

185.2-189.2-207. 
Paulinskill, 44. 
Pemberton, 16-92. 
Penn's Neck, 35. 
Perth Amboy. 30-31-34-37-47- 

51 - 95.7-97.9 - 99-105 - 120.2- 

123 - 138.3 - 144.2 - 190 - 207- 

220.4. 
Philadelphia, 12-20-21-39-40- 

47. 
Phillipsburg, 48 - 84.2 - 92.2 - 

176-207. 
Piscataway, 30-95.10-96.3-105- 

138.3. 
Plainfield. 70-176-207-208.4. 
Princeton, 9-ll-13-l.")-17-22-37- 

40-46-48 - 49-59-60-93.2-142.5- 

171.3-175.8-193.5-205-219.7. 
Rahway , 36-60-122-135. 7-138. - 

3-147.2-152.4-207. 
Randolph, 92.3-138.3. 
Rancocas Creek, 89.6-95.4. 
Raritan, 47. 
Red Bank, 49 - 108.7 - 148.5 - 

171.3. 



Salem, 12-20-31 - 32-.33 - 82.8- 
90.2-94-97-135.2 - 130.3-138.3- 
166-178-207. 

Sandy Hook, 11-46-57-64-95.2- 
136.4-177.6-179-180.4. 

Schooley's Mountain, 85.7 - 
154-178.5. 

Shrewsbury. 28 - 95.10 - 97.4 - 
105-131. 3-136.6-X.0.3-162.2. 

Somerville, 115.3. 

Spring-field. 130.6-171.3. 

Stanhope, 84.2. 

Swedesboro, 15. 

Tinnicum, 26. 

Trenton, 10-26-29-36-38-40-42- 
44-46-47-49 - 51-52-54-55-82.8- 
88.5-93.5-99.4 - 101-10S-117.G- 
122-124.6 - 125.2-135.7-138.3- 
141.7-152.3-172 - 175.7-177.11- 
178-181.6 - 185.8-188.6 - 207- 
213-218.8-221.3-224.7-228.2. 

Wahlkill, 84. 

Washington. ^18.4-119.2-125.2. 

Waterford, 48. 

Weehawken, 83.7. 

Whippany, 34. 

Woodbridge, 10-30-31 - 32-38- 
84.10 - 95.6-97.4 - 98.2 - 105- 
138.3-223.8. 

Woodbury, 54-^07. 



INDEX OF YEARS 

1524 to 1850 



Explanation — When paragraphs are indexed the page 
and paragraph are combined thus : ItJlO, 107.6 — mean- 
ing page 1U7, paragraph 6. 



1524, 


1.37. 1534, l6l. 


1(594. 


31-1.35.7-1(54.5. 


1584, 


25. 1606, 25. 


1(595. 


31-138.3-199.2. 


KJOIJ. 


25. 1014, 5. 


109(5, 


138.3. 1697, 6. 


lOK). 


107.0. 1017, 25-138.3. 


1698. 


(5-14-31-133.8-153.6. 


if;2:i 


25-161.2. 


1(599. 


6-31. 


1G24, 


6. 1826, 25. 


1701 (, 


32-103.0-105-166. 


1627, 


20. 10..0, 25-103. 


1701, 


32-10(5-108.8. 


1081, 


20. ia33. «). 


1702, 


6-.32-74.8-..i9.10. 


1&34. 


20. 16.38. 6. 


1703, 


32-103.7. 1704, 33. 


1040. 


26. 1042, 0-74.4. 


1705, 


33. 1707. 33. 


lfi4F;. 


0. 


170S. 


(5-33. 1(09, (5-34. 


1«)48, 


20-138.3-150.3. 


1710. 


6-.34-164.5. 


mu. 


6-27-74.5 - 131.4- - 138.3- 


1711. 


34. 17i2. 3.5. 


161.3-169.2. 


1713. 


35-13^.3-144.4. 


1665. 


27-95.8. 


1714, 


(J-35-162. -1(54.5. 


166(;. 


18-27-96.3-i^u.4-138.3. 


171(5, 


35. 1717, 35. 


1667. 


11-74.6-107.4-138.3. 


1718, 


35-199.7. 1719, 35. 


i;;6s, 


27-97.3-138..3. 


1720, 


6-30-138.3-175.6. 


i«;6it. 


27. 1070. 97.4. 


1721, 


36. 17::2. .36. 


1(571. 


(5-27. 1072, 12-27. 


1723. 


9. 1726. 125.4. 


I67:i. 


27. 


1727. 


3(5. 1<28, (5. 


1C>74. 


6-27-157.4-167.6. 


1729. 


6-135.7. 1730, 38. 


1675. 


27-It7-l(»7.3-1.35.2-164.5. 


1731. 


0-3(5-1.38.3. 


1676. 


6-27-29-74.7 - 90.4-138.3- 


17:52. 


6-3(5. 


1(;2 


.3-169.2. 


1734. 


37-9.5-138.3. 


i(;77. 


29-1.38.3-1.50.4-104.5-174. 


173(5, 


(5-;.*. 


1678, 


29-95.3-108.3-138.3-109.2. 


1737. 


37-95.2-163.7. 


167! ». 


6-29-95.(>. 


17.3S. 


(5-38-l;>1.2. 


ir.sd. 


2;t-i:!s.:{. 


lliV.), 


3S-164.5-1(^>6. 


I6SI. 


6-:!0-95..5-1.34. 3-138.3. 


1740. 


.38-103.3-lo4-i:'.S..3-153.5. 


ir,sii. 


6-:'.(» - 95.6 - 107.3 - 150.0- 


1741. 


9-lO(».5. 1742. 100.5. 


l.-)S 


2-l62.3-l«;4.5-170.8. 


1743. 


.37-1 00. r.. 


16,s;!. 


(5-30 - 95.7 - 157.2 - 158.4- 


1744. 


12-ltt0.4. 


15!).4. 


1745. 


9-12-98-1(5(5.7. 


1684. 


0-30-95.9-96-108.3-138.3. 


L74(5. 


(5-37-106.5 - 125.4 - 135.4- 


16S.-,. 


(5-.3()-l()5.2. 


205 


5-2.30.9. 


ir.sc. 


(5-120.2. 


1747. 


(5-37-137.3-174.5. 


Hi.sT. 


(5-;;(». 


174S. 


9 - .37 -98.8 - 108 - 164.5 


16SS. 


(5-31 -158-1(54..-.. 


1(5(5 


3-174.5. 


16S!>. 


1.31.3 1(59(1, (5-20!».S. 


1750. 


.38-1.38.3-1(51.4-179.7. 


li-.Kl. 


(5-31. 


17.51. 


.3S-98.2-l(5.5.2. 


H«»2. 


(5-31-1.33.7-134. 


1752. 


9-219.6-190.5. 


160;{. 


31-1.34-1.35.4. 


1753. 


44-164.5-2(J9. 



INDEX OF YEARS. 



239 



1754. 
1755. 

138 

1756, 

1757, 

1758, 

1760, 

1761, 

1762, 

L764, 

1765, 

1766, 

176. 

1769, 

138, 

187, 

1770, 

201 

1771, 

1774, 

1777. 

171. 

L775. 

192. 

1776. 

119 

167 

216 

1778. 

1779. 

1.54. 

1780 

118. 
1781, 
1782, 
L783, 
1784, 
226. 
1785, 
1786, 
1787, 
1788. 
1789. 
1790. 
180 
1791, 
lil6 
1792. 
1793, 
1794. 
1795. 
1797. 



10-135.4-1.7.2. 

10-98.3-103.3 - 106-138.3- 
6. 

11-38-97.9. 
6-38-104.6-120. 
6-38-174.5-223.8-179.7. 
6-9-38-95.8. 

6-38-174.5-199.4. 
201.4. 1763. 8-38. 
35-135.4-135.2. 
39-172.5-179.7. 
6-39 - 74.1 - 104.2 - 1.35.4- 
.2-179.7. 

10-100-104.3 - 115.7-135.4- 
,3 - 161.6 - 172.4 - 179.7 - 
,3. 

12-39 - 96.7 - 107 - 170.2- 
.3. 

39-40. 1773, 130.5. 
39. 

40-77.1 - 98.6-100 - 122.3- 
.3-208.4. 

40-97.8-107.3-140.7-191.4- 
,4. 

10-22-39 - 88.4-100-106.2- 

- 120.3-139 - 157 - 186.8- 
.4-171.3 - 1(0-199.5-208.3- 



40-121-171.3-226.2-179.5. 

41-98.6-119.7-125.2-130.7- 
,6-218.8. 

10 - 11 - 41-97.10 - 108.2- 
3-1.30.6-171.3-183. 

11-41-1.36.2-224.4. 

42-2:^3.2. 
42-134.2-lo6.7-158..5-224.7. 

42-47-100.6 - 106.7-224.7- 
9. 

42-226.9-227.4. 

43-119.3-120..3-163. 

5-10-13-43-118.2. 

14-43-118.5-163. 

9-43-124.6-141-18.3.3. 

9-44 - 1.39.9 - 164.3-226.5- 

"lO-12 - 13-14 - 44 - 165.5- 

2 
'^4-88.5-218.8. 

10-141-218.8-219.3. 
44-89.2-1.37.3-166.2-179.7. 

44. 1796. 15-44. 

21.5.5. 1798, 45-96.6. 



1800, 45-1.36.3. 

1801, 15-45-89.h. 

1802, 11-45-97.2. 

1803, 10-45-141. 

1804, 11-13-45-225.3-192.3. 

1805, 12-45. 1806, 11-45. 
1807, 46-19i.4. 1808, 12-46. 
1809, 46-167.5-193.5. 1810. 46. 

1811. 46-148.4-1.52.7-1.53.2-22.5.3. 

1812. 10-ll-46-4y-l.j4-161-219. 7. 

1813. 39-46-141 - 153.8 - 154.7- 
163.5-227.3. 

1814. 12-46-149.7 - 1.53.4-153.7- 
1.54.4-222.9. 

1815. 11-47-88.4-169.3-170.5. 
181(>, l()-47-119.2 - 152.4 - 153- 

1.54.2-223.7. 

1817, 12-47-152. 

1818, 47-97.8-98.5-151.7. 

1819, 47-1.5:!.7-l,51-184.3. 

1820, 47-149. ,S-l.-.0. 3-16.5.4. 

1821, 47-107.2-14i>.3-1.50. 

1822, 48-148.9-149.5-185-191. 

1823, 10-13-45 - 48-141.3-141.3- 
179.3-183.5-185.3. 

1824, 48-135-141.4-170-184.6. 

1825, 48-115.8-141.5 - 142-143.2- 
18:3.5. 

1823, 48-142.7-143-144.2-225.3. 

1827, 48-143.7-144.3-144.6-146.8. 

1828, 49-144.9-145-146-183.5. 

1829, 49-115.3-145-146.3-147. 

1830, 49-109.5 - 148.7-148 - 149- 
169.4. 

1831, 49-148.5-169.7-216.4-184.4. 

18.32, 49-184.5. 

18.33, 49-141. 

18.34, 50. 1835. .50. 
18.36, 50-89.5-170. 

1837. .50-88.2-134.6-163.5-164.5. 

1838. .50-164.5. 
18.39. .51-176.5. 

1840. 51-164.5-165.4-166.5. 

1841. 51. 1842, 13-.51. 

1843. .51-141. 

1844. .51-74.1-115.9-148.6-184.5- 
218.2-231.4. 

1845. 51-163..5-225.8. 
184(5. .52-104.5-168.6. 

1847, 52-118.4. 

1848, .52-12.5.6. 

1849, 52-169.5. 18,50, 52. 



INDEX OF EVENTS 



Explanation — When paragraphs are indexed the page 
and paragraph are combined thus : Camp Meet- 
ings, 177.7 — meaning page 177, paragraph 7. 



Anniversaries, 56-09-05-281.2. 
Admission of States, 72-73. 
Ahiska and Hawaii. 74.8. 
Administrations, 74-75-188.10. 
Agriculture and Farming;, 

!»2.4-10s.8 - 114.-14G.8 - 178.2- 

204-221.5. 
Area and Dimensions, 70-77- 

7.S- li:',. 1-107.8 - 107.2-177.5- 

1S8.-20S. 
Altitudes. 117.5-177.0-180-180. 
Annals of N. J.. 25. 
Animals, 114.0-142.0-147-150.4- 

155.8-l!)l».5-205.8 - 209.7-212.- 

5-212.9 - 218.2 - 215.8 - 219.2- 

219.5-228.8-229.8. 
Back Pay, 19. 
Ballooning. 140. 
Banks. 45-04-141.0-148.8-145.8- 

192.8-217. 
Battles. 180.0 - 180.9 - 147.0 - 

152.8 - 159.(; - 170.5 - 171.3 - 

172.2-178.4-179.5-185.8. 
Bible Societies, 198.5-193.6. 
Biographies Brief, 9. 
Bonapartes The, 149. 
Books. :',2-80-39-45-40-68-98.2- 

loo.(; - 100.2 - 108.5 - 107.2 - 

114.9-180.(5-195.4-220.2. 
Boundary Lines. 11-15-85-08- 

75-77.7 - 81.5 - 128.7 - 134.2- 

144.9-148.7-174-187.2. 
Boroughs, "When, 118.2. 
Brick Making, etc., 101. 
Broad Seal War. etc., 15-16- 

51-124.5-1(>0.8-197.2. 
Burr's Conspiracy, 118.4- 

120.2. 
Cabinet Officers. 13 - 115.3 - 

188.5-187.2-209.4-210.3. 
California Gold, 125.0. 
Camp Meetings, 177.7. 
Caucus System, The, 118.5. 



Canals and Lines, 40-47-48- 
49 - 50-58 - 54-50 - 57-1j8-C>(j- 
81.9 - 92-109.8 - 180.3 - 140.0- 
148.9-109.4-180.7 - 170-18;;.2- 
210.0. 

Capital and Capitol, 44-45-51- 
52-57-88.5-108.4-180.7. 

Cemeteries, 178.7-178.8-186. 

Census, 59. 

Centennial. The. 58 - 59-89- 
140-210.4. 

Charitable Institutions, 18 - 
19-28-.50-57 - 58-59-00-62-05- 
90.0. 

Churches and Meeting 
Houses. 27-80-31 - 82-84-85- 
80 - 42-47-95.8 - 102.4-115.7- 
155-172.5-17<).3 - 189.4-l9it.:!- 
190.0 - 191.2 - 193.7 - 195.:'. - 
199.7 - 205.0 - 210.7 - 212.7 - 
220.1-220.4. 

Climate and Temperature, 
82-129.4 - 152.5-156.4 - 100.5- 
191-193. 

Cities, 109.10-207-210-211.7. 

Coins, Mints and Paper 
Money, 88-84-90-94. <>-l05. 8- 
114.10 - 117.5 - 119.8 - 120.3 - 
1.55.2-158.2-229.4. 

Colony to State. 78.1. 

Colleges, etc.. 87-38-42-50-51- 
52-53-54-55-5(>-00 - 01-02-04- 
68 - 93.2 - 100.5 - 107 - 125.4- 
135.3 - 188.11 - 170.2 - 179.2 - 
190.4-195.2-214. (•>-280.9. 

Congresses. 24-89-40-48-115.5- 
110.7-148.8-188.3-184. 

Condensed Statistics, 5. 

Constitutions, 74.1-88.4. 

Continental Congress. 41-42- 
224.7. 

Continental Money, 41. 



INDEX OF EVENTS. 



241 



Constitutional Conventions, 

10-12-16-22-23-27-43-51. 
Constitutional Amendments, 

23-.56-57-58. 
Conventions, Political, 17-18- 

22-54-68. 
Corporations and Incorpora- 
tions, 31-42-46-51 - 64-141.3- 
1B2-166.2-203.4-215.5. 
Cuban Affairs, 122.4-123.2- 

215.7. 
Curiosities, 101.3-102 - 116.2- 
117.4 - 120.5-121.3-126-167.8- 
132.8-134.3-180.3-188-208.7. 
Council of State, Safety, etc., 

40. 
Council Women of Lincoln, 

71). 
Custom Houses (see Taxes), 

31. 
Debt, State, etc., 64-137.4- 

186.2-103.3-210.3. 
Declaration of Independence, 

100.3-122.3-139.2-157. 
Delaware Breakwater, 49. 
Discoveries, 25-96.2-137-168.6- 

180.6. 
Distances. 80.4-211.2. 
District of Columbia in N. J., 

88 1 
Draft of '62, 55. 
Duels of 1823, etc., 192.2- 

212.4. 
Duties (see Taxes). 
Early Governors of N. J., 6. 
East and West India Com- 
panies. 25-26. 
East and West Jersey, 28-29- 
30 - 31 - 32-97.6 - 101 - 108.8- 
120.2-1.31-157.4-159.8-167.6. 
Earthquakes. Tornadoes, 

etc., 35-37-59-67-71. 
Edison (T. A.), Items,. 60-70- 

1.32.5-174.4-201-212.6. 
Education, 5-30-47-49 - 52-58- 

65-106.4-107.4-188.3-201.2. 
Electoral College and Vote, 

46-47-51-55-59-64-163.5. 
Execution of Andre, 11. 
Expedition to Canada, 34. 
Expositions and Fairs, 94.3- 

149.2-174.4. 
Exports and Imports, 85.6- 

105.4. 
Face of Country, 83-85-164.2- 
167.2-178.3. 



Falls, 85.7-170.8. 
Farms and Farmers, 5-64-79- 
109.12 - 110.2 - 110.7 - 122.6 - 
125.3-159.2 - 178-178.6-182.4- 
218.2-222. 
Famine in xereland, 52. 
Finances. 41-64-1.34.6-149.3. 
Fires, 50-62-66-68-69-70-95.8- 

122 - 142.7 - 150.5-151 - 198.4- 

215.4-216.2. 
Fisheries. 81 - 68-111 - 142.2- 

143.6-217.7. 
Flags, 125-137.0-139-222.5. 
Forts, 26-.3.3-185.7. 
Fourth of July, 100. 
Free Masonry, 119.8-122. 
Friends (see Quakers). 
Fruits. 129.2-138.2-156.5-169.6- 
173.2-175.7-198.2-210.2-211.3. 
Gambling and Lotteries, 36- 

66-67-96.8-225.2. 
Geology of N. J., 83.8-84-89- 

129..5-130-151.2 - 174.7-176.5- 

180-183.4-187. 
Glass and Glass Works, 46- 

47-48-49-56 - 84.11-108-111.2- 

112.6-166.3. 
Governors, 6-7-8-9-91.7-94.9- 

99.3-101.2-106.7 - 115.5-117.2- 

120-126.5 - 138.4-144.2-148.3- 

170.7 - 184.2 - 195.7 - 196.2 - 

201.6-205.6-206.4. 
Hard Times. 30-40-41-43-60. 
Historical Societies, 51-90.5- 

99.5-117 - 182.5-186.6-224.6- 

230.2. 
Houses and Dwellings, 95.1- 

98.9-110.5 - 141.4-182 - 199.2- 

199.6-201.8. 
Indians and Indian Claims, 

13-26 - 29-30-34 - 38-49-88.3- 

91.7-96.6 - 98.3-103.3 - 115.9- 

131.7-134-138.7 - 138.3-155.3- 

179.4-189.8-195-229.7. 
Inventors and Inventions, 

152.4 - 156 - 184.3-200.2 - 201- 

2.30.8. 
Internal Improvements, 48. 
Iron and Iron Works. .34-.36- 

37-42 - 44-48-51-52-55-56-57- 

58-84-85 - 90.8-92.3-92.7-93.3- 

100.6 - 111.2 - 138.2 - 153.8 - 

162.3-173.6-208.3. 
Itemized Information, 74. 
Jersey Blues, 166.7. 
lersey Cattle, 91.4. 



24"J HISTOKICAI, HANI) BOOK OF NKW JERSEY, 



Jersey Greens. H.c.T. 
Jersev LiKhtniii^j. llTtA. 
Jersey Plan.Tht*. 4.'.. 
Jersey Thumler. 71. 
Labor Items. '.»:{- l.".s.:{. 
Land Grants. •jr.-Jti-27-'J><-l>il.4- 

i:{.s.4-ir,i.:{-n;;»-l'.»H.r,-_'u!». 
I^anils an<l Land Sales. :r2-:ir)- 

r».*{-.sT-H!».'.i-ni:Mii»..-,. 

LarK^^st Hoiisf in V. S.. .'»:?. 
I^awsuits. 115».ti - r_'J.."i - i:{.{ - 

2-^1 >.'-'. 
Leather Industry. Itl.S - IC',- 

i(i4.(;-iri;{..-)-i<;j».-_'-i7o.j. 

Le^isla lures. .•{n-.TJ-;{;{-:;!»-4o- 

r,4-."i.s-(M - r,«;-«j7-«;s-;ni.4-i<M;.'j- 
VAs.',', - 14!».7 - I.".-.-' - l.".:<.s - 
ir.7.*J-l('.*J.r.-17n.r, - l7.;--JiH.«5- 

Libby Prison of •7i>. lirj.C- 

I'.M.L'. 
Libraries. :{s-44-4»;-4S-r.J-r..".- 

r»l -«;.". - 7i-io'.i - ij4.;{ - irio.r,- 

17!t.7--'l.-..i;. 
Life Saving Service. 17-r.»S.:{. 
Li<|uor Laws. .H - •"►;{ - •Ji>4.7- 



Mines and Mininpr. I'i-So-.'iO- 
.K4.4-ior,.-j - i-»^.s-ir.o.:{ - iiji- 
i7n.:{-i7.'.-is7.r.-irjL.-j. 

Millionaires. lliM-lilS. 
Ministers and Preachers. '.\\- 

:vj-:{!»-i«>.-j - io2.:{-io.s.4-ii(».r>- 
I4s.r.. 

Monuments and Statues. 40- 

«•,_•-«;.-.-« ;s - i-,.r.-i7i.ii- i7L>.:i- 

•JH;.7-2l'ii..'.. 

Morals in 17<m>. 1u.'{.»;-1,-,7..'.. 

Mountains and Hills. IJl.T- 
l.".-l(;<M;-l(iS. 

Names and Nicknames, i.'i- 
•JS - :{(» - lu.',..-j - 107..{ - 114.4- 
1J(».:{ - vii.i - 1-Js.:? - i.Tj.j - 
i:n.7 - i.-.4.;{ - i.-.4.«; - i.-.«;.j - 
ir.s-i.-,!> - i»;(>.7-n;(».iu - n;i •_•- 

HM;.7 - I'm..". - 1«;7.7 - His..", - 
HV.)M - 1 1.^.4 - 174.:: - 17.-...- - 
*ju4.r.. 

Newspapers, etc. 5-'.»-10-.'iS- 
41 . 4-,.4(;.4,s . .-,:MMl-J»S.r,-l(>5»- 

iis.4-iii».«; - i:{o.r>-i7i-iHi.4- 
is4.t;-*ji>4.:{-'jis.s. 

Old Jersev. 74.2-117.7-11?^. 7- 

rjc,..'?-->>4.:{. 



[Jterature (see liookst. IdS.r,- I DriRinal l.'i. Lucky 



in;.2 - iis.i; - i4s.r, - iu.-..;{ 
i.s7.::-ii»7.4. 

Lobbyists ot Old. 1411. 

I..ocomotives and Enj^ines, 
1(;!>.7-1!H».4. 

T.,onilon Adventurers. 'J.".. 

Ijon^ltude and Latitude, 5- 
7r,-,s(i.:'.-iji.(;. 

Mails, r. S.. etc.. .•i7-S').2-!»().0- 
i:{.-..7-147. 4-147. s.-l,s.-,..s. 

Manufactures. .'. - s.-,.:{ - «»;).S - 
llM.,s - 111.4 - i:{!»..-. - 147.7 - 
l.-:'..7-177.11-l'.i7. 

Manuf.icturiiiK. I'-arly Estab- 
lishments. 44-4.--4i;-47-4S-.-.ii- 
.--.l-.-.l'-.-..-. - ln-5..-.-H;i;.4 - ISJI.12- 

i<.i!»-i.'Mi.:{---Mi--_M.:. 

Map^. Ancient. I(t7.<;-14:?.7. 
Marriages of Aliens. n.->-12*J.S- 
l!>o..'-i«r_'-i.Mt.-,--_'i:{.r.. 

Medical Items. 104.'J-1U.K.4- 

1 IN 5- i:{;{.H-i 5 ».-...-.. 

Militia an.l Soldiers. .'{■J-.TU41- 
4«;-,-,4-C.-J - 1S_'.7 - ls'.t..-.-1'.tl..-.- 
I'.rj..-. 

Military School. 4'.t. 

Mills. Saw ami Grist. Jrj.:.- 

2ar.-iM.i-!».-..4-i>7.7-i:m. 



Palisade Protection. li.'?-2(«>.S- 
151 l.r,. 

Paper and Paper Mills. 104.3- 
Hi4.7-lil(t.S. 

Patriots. Early. -J.-.-l.TJ-'J-jr...'^ 

Peace Congress. 17-r.4. 

I'etiitentiary be^cun. .-.O-l.ST). 

Pensions. State and Na- 
tional. •;r,-«.»7.s. 

Pirates .ind IliKhwavmen. 
Ii7.1i>-_'1S.4. 

Popidation. .->-:;•_• - 4S - sr. - S7- 
".».-.. in- km; - lll..-.-ll-J.l-irj.7- 
i:5U.7 - i:!s - i(;:'..7 - Hi4.:{-l7J- 
17'.i.«;-lSM.7 - lsi-is.s.4-2i>7.."{- 
•Ji:{..-5--_M7.4. 

Ports of Entrv. sl.S-!M\-J-n.'..r,. 

Postofllces. .-. - .•{7 - 44 - 100.4- 

lu:{.'-'- 1 7.-..:m ST. .•-.-•ji K».r.. 
Presi.lents. V. S.. .K.s.-J-12:^7- 

i:{;{.-j. 

Princeton Incidents. etc.. 

o:{.-j-iiMt.ii-i:{-j.:< - i4-.'.r»-i74.r.- 

17.-..S - 17il.7-177.2-104-107.4- 
2 10. 7 -22.!. 2. 
Printers and Presses. .TJ-.'tS- 
.tO - 0S.2 - lo7.r. - 14J>.4 - i.-.i- 
Hr..2-HM.r.-22«i.2. 



INDEX OF EVENTS. 



243 



Productions, 82-84-112.0-129.- 

2-18.^.4-188.0. 
Provincial Congress, .39-190.2. 
Public Debt and Loans, 44. 
Public Institutions, 50-52-55- 

50-180.2. 
Public Stealing-. HT-20T.2. 
Quakers, 2;»-;',.->-.38 - !>4.4-95.9- 

90.6-97.4-107.4. 
Quarries, Old. 94.8-129.3-170.;:{. 
Railroads, 5-.5,3-54 - 58-04-00- 

89.5 - 90.8-102.5 - 109.7-112.5- 
114..3 - 117 - 120.6 - 140..3-150- 
151.5 - 189.3 - 183.2 - 184.4 - 
199.9-210.4-212.8. 

Railroad Charters and Com- 
panies, 19-47-49-50-52-57-00- 
89.4. 

Rainfall. Average, 82. 

Rebellion, The, 20-3.3. 

Records, Public, 100-101. 

Relics. Old, 131.2-150.8-221.3. 

Representation, etc., 141. 

Rice Culture, 1.53.0. 

Riparian Rights, .55-57-01-66- 
77.6-186.8. 

Roads, 30-33 - 66-90.7 - 123.5- 
1.35.6-214.2. 

Salaries, 41-59 - 60 - 63 - 99.3- 
149.7-150.0-17.5.2. 

Saturday Half Holiday, 178.9. 

Scenery and Resorts, 131.5- 
151.4 - 100.8 - 172.0 - 174.2 - 
170.0 - 177.8 - 177.10 - 178.5 - 
189.0-201.4. 

Senators, U. S.. 24-105-226.5. 

Society of Cincinnati, 11- 
141.5-143-190.4. 

Schools, Public, 29-31-32-47- 
49-50-51 - 52-55-57-60-60-08- 
87-90.3 - 91-94.7 - 90.4 - 99.0- 
109.3-112.4-114.6 - 148-168.4- 
173.3-205.4-225. 

Sheep and Sheep Raising, 
149.0-153.2-1.54.0-173.5-204.8. 

Ships and Fleets, 25-27-28-29- 
30 - 40-08-71 - 93.4-122.7-124- 
1.30.9-135.2-200.215. 

Slaughtering, etc., 110.9-111.3. 

Smokeless Powder, 04. 

Socialistic Communes, 108.7. 

Slaves and Slave Trade, .32- 
35 - 45 - 46-49-54 - 94.4-95.2- 

98.6 - 97.5 - 98.4 - 99 - 119.2 - 
139.8. 



Slaves, etc.. 151.7-157-159.4- 

105.4-18.5-195.0. 
State Rights, 9-118-145. 
Stages and Stage-i^inef. '-57- 

38 - 90.2-97.9-98 - 1.30.2-154.7- 

192-200.4. 
Stamp Act, "Odious", 102.2- 

100.0. 
Statistics, 5, etc. 
Steam Engine. 137.3-225.3. 
Settlements. 5-L:.>-2(;-27-2'.t-:;7- 

91.3-9(5.3-97 - 105-109.5-138.:'.- 

150-159 - 102.2 - 104.5-177.4- 

180.3. 
Steamboats. 42 - 43 - 44-90.8- 

98.5 - 104-140.4 - 103 - 190.5- 

200. 0-225. :;-22(;. 9-227.2. 
Steven's J^>atterv, 21-57-58. 
Strikes and Riots, 19-20-Ou- 

()3-05-0i>-lo8. 
Sunday School and Laws, 05- 

95-115-120.4. 
Surveys and Surveyors, 30- 

35-53-00-02-90.7-99.7-187.5. 
Taverns, 30-95.7-90.1-200.3. 
Taxes, Customs, Duties, 29- 

31-33 - .34-40 - 41-04 - 130.4- 

1.37. 5-172. ,5-181-189. 
Teachers and Institutes, 53- 

133.12. 
Telephone and Telegraph, 09- 

90.8-121.2-221.2-2.30.3. 
Timber, North and South, 82- 

93.4-1.36.4-175-205.4-211.9. 
Tories and Traitors. 39-40-41- 

118.3 - 1.30.5 - 131.6 - 130.0 - 

1.54.7-215.8-219.3. 
Town Lots and Sites, 30-91.0- 

95.3-97.3-130.8. 
Townships. 47-48-49-109.9. 
Trade Relations, 101 - 143.3- 

149.5. 
Treaty of Peace 42. 
Treasury, State, 143.2. 
Turnpikes (see Roads), 45- 

89. 3. 
Veto Governor. 22. 
Votes and Voting, 5 - 119 - 

127.1 - 140.0 - 144.3 - 147.5 - 

1.50.7-192.7-217.4-228.7. 
War, 18-20-27-34 - 42-54-92.3- 

93.0 - 94.2 - 101.7 - 1.30-140.7- 

141.2-154.1 - 100-183.2 -1().3.0- 

104 - 107 - 108.7 - 179 - 182.3- 

191.5 - 192.0 - 196.0 - 210.5 - 

222.4-227.0. 



M4 HISTORICAL HAND BOOK OF NEW JERSEY 



War of 1812, 4(5-222.4. 

War of Mexico. 52. 

War Debt, r,5-130. 

War Vessel, first launched, 

(■»."». 
Waters of N. J.. 85.2-85.7- 

l>1.5-120-129.8-188.5-2.'i4.4. 
Wealth. 167.G - lu8.3 - 172 4 - 

17.s.(; - 181.9 - 182.4 - 182.6 - 

2i:i..j-214. 0-2.30. 5. 
Wa.shington's Journey, 43. 



Whiskey Insurrection. 

^Voman Suffrage and R 
45-4(;-t;2-«;,s . ;»4 •'.«.).-, -, , 
I2(i.s-i2i-i«;7.4 - i.s;y.7- 
192. 7-193.8-200.2-223. 

World's Fair. 04-1.3G.8- 
182.5. 

Worship and Morals. 
158.4. 

Zinc and Zinc Works. 
178.2-220.2. 



10-12. 
ights, 
- 97.2- 
191.4- 

180.4- 

157.3- 

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